Day 21: Hook Prototype and Intake Testing
Hook prototypesWe are working through some basic routed hook prototypes to see how the pneumatic fold out will work on the robot. We also hung some sandbags from the wooden…
Hook prototypesWe are working through some basic routed hook prototypes to see how the pneumatic fold out will work on the robot. We also hung some sandbags from the wooden…
Vlogs and Video Updates from other teamsA ton of teams have been making build Vlogs this year on YouTube but they aren't the easiest to find. We've compiled a big…
Today was probably the end of the our 4 bar intake prototype. We had some goals for the intake design and it does meet some of those goals but we…
We received our Fairlane wheels in the male today. These are the 20A Nitrile durasoft wheels.They hold the cube far better than the our previous attempts.- Spectrum"If you have no…
Intake prototypes are finally running, took a little longer than we wanted with the ice days last week. It's working well for most cube orientations but we still aren't full…
Hook geometry to starting to take shape. We love this video by Adam Heard and 973 for designing pneumatic linkages. Drive train is moving along, it now has a belly pan…
Drive TrainDrive train CAD is starting to progress. We'll get the gearboxes and belly pan on over the weekend, and start working on the mounting points for the A F-frame. IntakeThe…
We did have our first meeting back after the winter storm. Most of the team spent the day at Memorial Hermann Hospital getting a tour of the new "da Vinci…
We couldn't meet Tuesday or Wednesday this due to hazardous road conditions and closed highways.We are too the stage we call Block CAD. None of parts are how they would…
We actually didn't meet for the first time in recent memory. The roads were iced and we have a deep freeze for over 24 hrs which rarely happens in Houston.Since…