Build Day 16: Waiting on Paint to Dry
We finished the constructing most of the upper poles today and got them painted. A lot of the day was waiting for the paint to dry. Tomorrow we can rivet…
Build Day 15: Robot is coming together
The robot progressed really far today. We have most of the drive train finished, minus a few chain runs. The brackets and gussets were all finished and painted and we…
Build Day 14
Started off the day discussing the Chairman's Award Submission. We want to get this going as early as possible so we have time to refine it before the submission deadline…
Build Day 13: Busy Day not just with the obot
Our build session started off with a presentation by the founders of BlueStampEngineering.com. They are bringing a summer engineering program to Houston and we thought it would be good for…
Day 12: Parts arrive
All of our parts orders came in today. Some of the items we ordered in small quantities to see if they would fit our needs. Nothing was drastically different than what we thought, so…
Build Day 11: Only 35 days left
I knew today was going to be light because all our parts are coming in tomorrow. Our main focus was working on the shooter prototype. The last time we tested…
Build Day 10
We put together the frame for this year's robot after we painted it on Saturday. We are starting to produce the real parts for the robot, like gussets, angle brackets…
Build Day 9: Rookie Build Day
Rookie Build Day The first Sunday of the build season, we take a break from working on our robot to help other teams. We're also normally about to the point…
Build Day 8: Prototypes
We tested several of our prototypes today. We're moving forward with the design and the tests all look to be going well. See our progress below. Ball Elevator Prototype The first system…
Build Day 7: End of Week 1
This is the mock up of our current design. A little explanation of the robot, the balls get spun up into the robot by the lowest black roller (the collector), than…