Week 3: Day 18

Today attendance was low but a lot of progress was made. Mathew Prymek, Dakotah, and I worked on our prototype Launcher. Nathan and Mathew Plamowski worked on their version of the launching prototype. Mike, Anna, Ashley and Jessica all worked on a ball gathering prototype. Maggie worked on programming. Tyler  Mechanical Team

Week 3: Day 17

 Tonight in the programming section we got a new member to start teaching Labveiw, we had both of our new programmers create calculators as practice and they each came up with very different methods for creating them. We also got a re-imaging key for our driver station laptop. In the mechanical section work still continues …

Week 3: Day 16

Matthew, Madeline, Andrew S., and Andrew R. worked on the Kinect and figuring out how it works. Tyler, Dakotah, and Nathan were working on the shooter prototype. Gary, Ryan, Matthew, and Jeremiah were making the hoops for the ball to go through. Dakotah made the handle to pick up the robot. Anna and I took …

Let the Race Begin: Day 15

Hey what is up? I don’t know, but let’s talk about robotic anyway. Tonight we worked on the mock field. They were testing out the goals to see if the balls will go through. We finely decided to go with a single direction shooter. We also worked on a ball pick up using a screw …

Build Season: Week 3 Day 14

Today has been a very productive day. We had some people visit form the Ball State Academy. They filled in some of the gaps that were left by a few of our team members who don’t come on Sundays.  All of the prototypes are coming along nicely. There are still a lot of things that …