With most of our electronics working in harmony, it was now time to iron out the details for our physical assembly. To recap, so far we have completed the assembly of the control panel, overall assembly and launcher module.

One of the biggest thing we needed to assemble was the ramp system for the ball collection. However, thanks to our cardboard mock-up of our final product, this was nothing more than just cutting some plywood and sliding them in carefully. These plywood pieces also act as the cover to hide all our electronics and our wiring because as much as we tried doing wire management, wires are just going to wire, am I right? These plywood pieces can easily be swapped out for clear or tinted pieces if anyone is interested to see the electronics in action.

Also part of the ramp system are the internal ramps that ensure the ball rolls to the correct collection point. We used some spare white ramps that another group had bought for their project because reduce, reuse, recycle. Also following the 3Rs, we made use of the many building prototypes we had to ensure the middle servo was placed at a high enough position to let the ball roll down the ramps.