Day 13: Preparing for the Weekend
We are almost finished with our drive train draft CAD. We have started turning parts on the lathe to get ready for assembly. We will be cutting out the drive…
Day 12: From Deep
We upgraded the shooter prototype even more today by making our Tri-wheeled shooter use multiple wheels so they act like rollers instead of wheels. We still don't have multiple balls…
Day 11: More Testing
Relatively short build meeting, today. We were able to make the next iteration on the shooter by adding a third motor to the top of the shooter. Tomorrow we will…
Day 10: Last Day of a Long Weekend
We completed the third of three very long build sessions today. Shooter The main progress of today was a couple new iterations on our shooter prototypes. The morning started by…
Day 9: Full Speed Ahead
Now that we have finished building all the defenses, we can turn our full focus to working on our prototypes and finalizing our design. We built a wooden mockup of…
Day 8: Defensive Breakdown
Today we decided to step back and re-evaluate our kickoff design and strategy, resulting in a scrap of our previous design. For the rest of the day we completed various…
Day 7: Robot Pullup Bar
We built a rung for hanging and attached it to our shelves. It works really well, and some people even tried doing pullups on it. Instead of building a tower…
Day 6: Portable Defenses
We upgraded some defenses and got our sheet metal shipment in today. We decided to order some casters to put underneath our defenses, mainly the drawbridge and the portcullis, because…
Day 5: Defense Fixing
We started off our meeting with a quick cleanup so we can be more productive. We also fixed our cheval de frise so that each plank can seesaw without locking…
Day 4: More field construction
We made some more progress our outerworks today. Our current drawbridge and cheval de frise need a little adjustment to work perfectly, but for now they're okay. We were able…