Introduction

We are Sei Jin's Rejects, a team in ME 250 at the University of Michigan. This blog is going to document our engineering, manufacturing and dominance in the Slotbots II competition this semester.

Our current CAD design:

Our strategy is to lock the flipper open for us, so that only our machine can score in the slot, while another module puts secondary focus on either defending our opponents cone, or scoring on the top of the slot. The machine we have designed to do execute our strategy consists of a locking arm which deploys to push the lever open, a scoring arm which will lower into the slot and push the balls to the goal, and a small rover which will push balls into our cone, or off the table, as well as defend against our opponents' machines and interfere with their strategy.

Sketch model used to demonstrate our design on the game arena:

Soon we'll post a link to our planned schedule for the rest of the semester