Day 38: More Problems, More Solutions
All our powder coated parts came back today. That was a huge positive. We have one week to get the robot together. Our normal lab space was being used for…
All our powder coated parts came back today. That was a huge positive. We have one week to get the robot together. Our normal lab space was being used for…
Today was spent mostly making pieces for our competition robot. We also had to swap out some rollers on our drive train. We're still having a few lift issues and…
We were able to put on the pop-up can opener hanging device today. It's still in prototype form but we managed to get directly over the center of gravity on…
We had to disassemble most of the robot today to be able iterate several of the systems. The lift came off so we could double the spring force helping it extend. The…
We received our 2nd run of sheet metal from Solarcraft Inc. today. They have been fantastic about making parts for us. This included our belly pan, shooter box, and disc…
We're down to the last two weeks of the build season. We still have lot of problems to solve, but that's what makes this game so much fun. We're working…
Only two weeks left till we stop building. This is going to be a close one for us. We have a mostly working practice robot, but we are still waiting…
We're still testing the systems. The lift is a little wobbly going up and we're also still trying to dial in the right amount of reduction we need on the lift motor.…
Bumper Build Our 1st annual Super Bowl Bumper Build was very successful. We had 5 teams in attendance (4155, 4280, 4346, 4639, and 4689). It was nice to get to work with…
We were able to test the drive train and other key pieces of our robot. They aren't perfect, but we can make them better. Not much of an update tonight…