Day 17: Another Long Work Day
We were off from school for MLK so we had another long work day. We improved our pneumatic launcher to where it give a nice chest pass. We aren't trying…
We were off from school for MLK so we had another long work day. We improved our pneumatic launcher to where it give a nice chest pass. We aren't trying…
We worked more on CADing up the game specific mechanism for our robot. Most of it is still in draft form but we're pretty happy with the direction it is…
We put together as much of the chassis as we could. This one ways about 50lbs as shown here. The real one will be lighter as some of the main…
After the sheet metal came in today, we started construction on the practice robot. We set up a test version of our octocanum modules. The drive train will hopefully be…
We finished the CAD for our chassis and a few other parts yesterday and one of our seniors who interned with our sponsor Solarcraft was able to go to their…
Tonight we finally started having success with one of our shooting mechanisms. We were able to score in the high goal and truss with this shooter. This shooter is heavily…
We finalized the CAD for the drive train today. We are cutting a heavy version for our practice bot that doesn't have a lot of holes that will be in…
Sorry we missed a couple days. We had a Bootcamp build day yesterday where we helped 5 teams get their AM14U up and working. We were back to work today,…
We continued improving our prototypes today after our design meeting yesterday. We modified our collector prototype to a version inspired by one of our VEX robots from this year. …
Today was our first design review. We have seen the 72 hour builds, prototyped a little, and played a human version of Aerial Assist. We think we have a good…