Tonight was an interesting evening. We didn’t have any one here to take pictures so this blog will have to be sad and lonely on it’s own tonight. We did some work done on the robot though. It now has hooks and cables that will allow it to hang on (or climb) the tower at …
Today was a relatively quiet night, not to many people came, but there were enough people to work on different things throughout the night. Tonight we did a lot of work on our prototype bot, it got a new motor that drives the pick up system. We put new drive gears and bands on the …
Today is a another work day for us. We have quite a list of things to get done today and tomorrow. We have to get this prototype done so we can start programming and drive testing it while we build the actual robot so we can “ship” it by the 18th. Here is what we …
Coming together… In a push test both the Frisbee pickup and lift and dump worked successfully Thursday. The majority of the electronics are mounted and wired. We should be driving Saturday. The shooter still needs work but should be testable Saturday, as well. Goals for Saturday: Test the drive train. Is the speed/torque ratio workable? Test the pickup …
Today we worked on multiple things. The electronics board got more work done on it. The new chassis was worked on in the form of printed parts. The programmers worked on slight changes to the driver station. The prototype Frisbee pickup system was tested and worked very well, but the robot has to be moving …