Day 28: Picking up the Pace
All our meetings are long, but today's was extra long, leading into an even longer weekend. We received our first run of sheet metal form Solarcraft Inc. They have been…
All our meetings are long, but today's was extra long, leading into an even longer weekend. We received our first run of sheet metal form Solarcraft Inc. They have been…
Last year at this time we had a working (driving and shooting) robot. This year we don't even have a superstructure on top of our robot. We did get our…
With our parts delayed at the machine shops, we had another slow day. It looks like we won't be shooting discs with our practice bot till possibly week 6. We're…
We're waiting on parts and CADing, so there wasn't that much going on today. We are still trying to improve our stacking mechanism that will allow us to stack and unstack 4…
CAD is still progressing, and the first of the machined parts are being made at TXRX Labs and Solarcraft Inc. We did a few cuts for the extrusion that will…
Today we were on hand at the 2nd kit bot build day of the Ultimate Ascent season. We had a smaller turn out than expected, but we're opening our lab…
Spectrum was on hand to help run the 2nd day of the HoustonISD VEX Robotics League. It's been great working with so many new robotics teams this year. We were…
That is the current CAD that we are finished with so far. All the electronic mounts have been sent to Solarcraft. The rest of the robot is coming along; we're…
Note: For more on this setup go to this CD thread (starts at about post #61). There might be ways to cut off less of the CIM shaft and still only…
Week three seems to be slipping away faster than the previous two. CADing takes a lot of time and we have to get parts laser cut very soon. We've been…