Wallace and Gromit Robot

The Wallace and Gromit challenge is to design a device that will deliver a LEGO miniature figure person from a bed on the second floor to seated at the kitchen table on the first floor, as is shown in the Wallace and Gromit video clip, The Wrong Trousers. Basic Inventor or Basic Pilot can be used for this LEGO Wallace and Gromit challenge. This challenge is more about the design of the robot opposed to the programming of the robot’s functions. A light sensor must be utilized in the Wallace and Gromit challenge in order to relate to the sun in the short film. Additionaly, the miniature figure person must not be touching the device used to transport the person out of bed into the chair at the kitchen table. The challenge allows for an abundance of creativity and unique design from each team.

When our group began the challenge, we misunderstood and thought that we were allowed to built either the Wallace and Gromit challenge or a device to make a task easier. We began with a candy sorter that would divide the candy by color. Our professor allowed us to continue with the project, since it was equally as challenging and because we already started. We ran into programming limitations when we discovered the light sensor could not sort by color, or sense the difference between colors. After the delay in our building, we decided to switch to the original jam and toast scenario from the Wallace and Gromit video, The Wrong Trousers. Initially in the design, the light blinks and the alarm button is required to be pressed, as was displayed in the short film with the sun and the alarm clock. A conveyor belt was incorporated to move Wallace and dump him onto a touch sensitive pad as the chair at the kitchen table. When the touch sensitive pad is activated the toast pops up in front of Wallace and the jam flinger device forces the jam onto the piece of toast that Wallace is about to eat. The final robot design worker extremely well to fit the Wallace and Gromit challenge of the toast and jam.