Taking on One Challenge at a Time

After you’ve assembled the power redirect, consider building a small, single-task robot as was suggested in Chapter 2. You can use this test robot to try to find a solution to the PR challenge. Rather than worrying about building and programming a robot to interact with the power interrupt device and the power redirect, simply try to build one to solve the PR problem.

In this instance, you’ve got to find a way to get your robot from the PID location to the PR location.

Note    The Mars Base Alpha challenge may not make sense to you yet, so feel free to jump ahead to Chapter 5 to read about the rules of the challenge. You’ll find that your robot must follow steps in order as it interacts with the three models. ...

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