This beast weighed in at about 12Kg's had two worm geared electric window motors as the drive-train, a grippy belt drive and enough torque to push through the toughest obstacle.

Open CV and wireless computer vision with a control center designed in MATLAB™ allowed us to control every aspect of the drive as well automate some features i.e automated picking of objects, self centering and distancing to targeted objects

Each and every part of this robots chassis was either hand made or repurposed priced at a super affordable price of ~100$ it was meant to be a platform to build programming expertise and increase our capacity in our field.

Back in the day the import of 3D printers were hard to come by in Pakistan, too difficult to procure and completely out of budget for me! 😅 Using all my intelligence (very little) and help from those around me (my dad) this huge 500mm*500mm*500mm beast was born.

Although I did manage to get a few prints out this way it did teach me the importance of tolerance. Tolerance for screw holes, rail holes and other alignment issues (and for when things don't work). We always learned about the Pythagorean theorem but it really showed up in this project, from the though hole being a few CM (inches) off just because the drill wasn't plumb dead straight 

(PS: Sorry for the blurry pictures)