Week 5: Day 27

The main bot has made a good bit of progress today. Ryan installed the wheels, and Jessica and Hannah put in the ball vacuum chain and installed the ball roller cylinders. The driver station has had more work done as well: Shawn put in a third control stick thingy. The Andrews have made good progress …

Week 5:Day 26

Today we continued work on our robot. Dakotah has been working on the drive train, Nathan has been working on the turret, and Jeremiah has been working on electrical work. We are moving along quickly, and we are making progress.Maggie Taylor

Week 5: Day 25

We are getting close to the deadline now for a finished robot. The countdown to ship date has all of us a little tense, as we try to put together a full working robot to ship, rather the prototype we have that is almost finished. As far as today goes there was at least some …

Day 1 of Week 5: Day 24

Today, in the machine room, we worked mainly on making various parts for the final robot.  These include mounting transmissions, building the ball thrower, and, of course, finishing building the chassis.  We’ve also been finalizing the prototypes, making sure everything works right before we put it on the robot. The programming team worked on creating …

END OF WEEK 4

Well, here we are. It’s the end of the fourth week of build season already. Things are really starting to pick up around here as we’re kicking things into high gear. Every one is helping out wherever they can, in the mechanical room or over in the computer lab and electronic room.We have made some choices, …