LemelsonMIT Inventeam ATAT (All-Terrain-Accessibility Transport)
My maternal grandmother has been suffering from Rhemotoid Arthiritis for more than 5 years now. She has difficulties walking and simply doing anything that requries assistance from her legs. I struck luck as my friends had just won an award for their stair-climbing robot prototype. Knowing my grandmother's situation after collaboration, they reached out to me to form a team of 9 in order to possibly build a real-life solution to this problem using a grant from Lemelson MIT. After an intense research application stage, we were selected as one among the 15 schools chosen in the entire nation for the $10000 grant. We, then, started planning and building the project in a company-like setting with assigned roles and departments, such as prgramming, me, electronics, mechanical engineering, business marketing, financing, administration etc. After a rigorous 6 month phase of building, testing, and marketing, we went to MIT to present our project. This experience of working as a team, managing pressure, time, and motivations througout was indeed very valuable and enriching.



Software
Eclipse IDE: The Integrated Development Environment used to program the robot.
FRC SDK: The development kit specific to the FRC FPGA board used with the robot.
Java: The language used to program the robot.