Today we finally got our new driver station parts! My subteam worked on gathering the parts, testing them, and setting everything up. We’ve got most of our network configured and now just need to put all the pieces onto the driver station. Shawn got an excellent start on the driver station structure, so next week …
We (the PhyXTGears) do not work on Fridays. I don’t think it’s for any specific reason, other than to give us a chance to rest and do something else for a day. Since we won’t be meeting today I thought this would be a good opportunity to give a quick re-cap of what has been …
Today the mechanical team continued to develop their prototypes. The mentors and some of the team members discussed different shooting and pick up mechanisms, demonstrating them with one of the prototypes. Michael, Dakotah, and Bryce worked with Nathan to develop a prototype push down arm that would be able to tip the ramp in the …
Andrew Shaffer Programming Team
Tonight, the mechanical team worked some more on the chassis of the robot. We’ve designed a mechanism for sucking in the balls that involves spinning plastic ‘noodles’ that direct the balls towards the launching mechanism. Some of the other team members worked on making the ramp that our robot will have to cross over during …