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Major site overhaul: resources hub, content migration, new blog posts, forms

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- Redesign /resources as sectioned hub with category pages
- Migrate 645 Squarespace CDN images to local /images/content/
- Create 9 new news/blog posts with event photos
- Fix blog post slugs (rename gibberish filenames)
- Rename Design Blog to Design Blogs across site
- Remove education page, replace with Platform in nav
- Redesign rover repair request form with dynamic rover entries
- Add school search combobox to contact, store, and repair forms
- Extract shared KNOWN_SCHOOLS data
- Make /rover-expansion-3d-printing dynamically pull from MDX
- Add related resources sections to product pages
- Fix homepage broken /quote links to /store
- Store page: sample kit cards, inline quote builder, mailing list opt-in
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Challenge students to program their rover to always try and stabilise itself. When complete, the rover will always turn and drive upwards on any tilted surface. Once the surface the robot is driving on is flat, it should stop moving. This means the robot will balance on a seesaw. Students will need to use data from the accelerometer to control the motors based on the orientation of the rover.
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### Setup
![](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a43bf842d7b601064a8828/1622791717500-EVGL2F387L08PUMP3JUA/balancebot-setup.png)
![](/images/content/bfcb8b-balancebot-setup.png)
We use a large hard cover book for this challenge as a platform. Any flat surface that can be moved and tilted will work. When the object is tilted the rover should move up the surface in an attempt to stabilize. When the surface is flat the rover has found balance and will not move.
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### Here’s Our Approach
![](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a43bf842d7b601064a8828/2c208513-92e1-4454-a85f-5bf189edb0af/Screenshot+2023-10-31+083156.png)
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Example Code (single axis balancing)
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#### **Stage 3**
![](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a43bf842d7b601064a8828/1622791925793-ZR3JU9N77ENPMDUUJLFP/balance-bot-answer-2.png)
![](/images/content/10e5b2-balance-bot-answer-2.png)
Example Code (multi-axis balancing)
To make the program also work for a circular board we need to also take into account the Y axis of the accelerometer. We can use the same scale number block to create a variable called rotation, which we can include in our motor block. Since our speed variable determines the speed the motors move forward or back, the rotation modifier needs a + or - sign. We need this sign because the robot rotates by making its tracks move in opposite directions.
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