Designing My Mars Lander

This term in robotics we did multiple things. At the start of the term we used tinkercad to work on a Mars Lander. While we were doing this, we had to investigate questions about Mars. After we made a digital rover we had to make a lego rover. Our Lego Mars rover worked well. It took us an hour to construct it. My hypothesis was I think the design was too complicated, that it might come first. But, it had a lot of wheels so it went  slower in the Rover Races. Things that make up a Rover is it's shape. It you make a good robot with a good shape, it will stay good. It needs to be stable, so when the camera is looking on the surface of a planet it won't fall over by the camera weight, Or if the wheels are in a bad spot.

In the video below, we used Tinkercad. We had to put shapes together to try make a good rover. Firstly, I had to make a design on paper. I wanted to do a Wall-E, but that didn't work. So I worked on one that turned out looking like a duck, with Perry the Platypus colors. I had to make it solid on the body, then a camera as the beak. But when you group it together it changes the colors. If there were a few more weeks of this class left, we were able to 3D print it, but there was no time left. The reason for doing this was to learn about Mars. Learning how Rovers roam the top of a planet, and see how much effort you have to put into making one.