Whaley the Robot
- Ma-Sha Prize, MIT 2.007
too many degrees of freedom

A robot built for the Robotics Design Class at MIT featuring various mechanism to accomplish specific tasks on a unique game board.
Received the Ma-Sha Prize in the MIT 2.007 Annual Robot Competition, a prize for the most beautiful, elegant, and stunning robots.
Mechanisms
What I learned
There are way too many degrees of freedom for one little task. Any of them breaking means it doesn't work, and I could not control all of them fluidly with my controller.
Zhixing Chenzhixingc@mit.edu