Day 39: Parts are finally back
We got all the parts back from the powder coater today, sadly there won't be any purple powder coat on our robot but the white still looks good. There will…
Day 38: New Collector but no powder coated parts
We didn't get our powder coated parts back today. We have been assured tomorrow. The assembly should only take 3 days but it would be nice if we had all…
Day 37: Everything is ready
We prepped all the parts we needed for the construction of the final robot. Every little spacer is ready to go and should make final assembly very quick. We had…
Day 36: Programming, Friends, and Fundraising
We did a lot of work on programming today. We added in our IR sensor to detect the ball. This allows us to automatically stop our collection and catch commands…
Day 35: Launching Better
We spent the day gathering all the parts for the competition robot. We still don't have the sheet metal back yet but that should be Monday. We want to have…
Day 34: Withholding allowance and 3D printed parts
We're sort of just waiting on the parts to come back from powder coat at this point. Lots of little things going on but not much major work. We're reworking…
Day 33: Fixing our mistakes
Sorry for no post yesterday, we had a really short meeting since there were parent-teacher conferences. Mostly worked on chairman's award stuff. We'll start with a video today of us…
Day 31: More mecanum news & catching video
This morning we got a call from VEX explaining that they had intentionally shipped the incorrect rollers with the 4" mecanum wheels so that they could get the product out…
Day 30: When life gives you mecanums
Well today was interesting. We started the day by taking off the mecanum wheels from our drive train and replacing them with the omniwheels. We have the robot set up…
Day 29: Mama said there’d be days like this
This is a hard post to write. It's just been one of those days where nothing goes well. We had some problems yesterday but we were pretty optimistic we would…
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