Author: Allen Gregory

Intake TestingWe had some of our best intake tests today. One of the key points in an interactive design cycle is when you begin to understand what can be removed…

Drive over the cable bump videoDrive up the charge station videoMore can be seen on our Photo Gallery Week 2 and Week 3 Source: Spectrum

 Cone Intake TestingWe are pretty happy with the test version of the cone intake. It’s able to pick up tipped-over cones that have their tip ahead of the flange and…

Launching:Today we experimented a bit with launching cubes and made some progress. There is still a lot of work to be done, and we are still changing all the spacing…

Our Alpha elevator uses a timing belt and idler pulleys as its motion system. It’s designed around the 0.5” hole spacing on the REV Maxtube and uses the REV Max…

Every Tuesday we hold our design recapsElevator Test Video Source: Spectrum

Today we focused on mounting the Elevator onto the Alpha Chasis. A couple of unique things about it are the way we mount the crossbar and A-frame. Here is the…

Elevator go brrr (doesn’t go brrr yet).Today we made a lot of progress on manufacturing alpha. We made an elevator using 2x1 REV MAXTube and the Thrifty Bot bearing blocks.…

Switching to 4-bar from SliderWe are switching system 3 from a linear slider to a 4-bar linkage. This allows us to use our full elevator extension for raising the intake…

We have decided to follow the 1678 model of building an alpha robot. We quickly realized while testing intake prototypes that we will likely need to bolt them onto an…