Author: Spectrum 3847

We received our sheet metal parts on Friday afternoon. Everything looked great on the parts. Saturday and Sunday were spent putting together the practice robot. We have the arms on…

We started our meeting off with a mid-build clean. Swept and vacuumed up the entire lab and reorganized tools. We are running our router non-stop during meetings to get our…

Spectrum is using GrabCAD Workbench this year to do version control and content management for our Solidworks CAD files of our robot. One of the nice features of GrabCAD Workbench…

Sorry for the lack of updates, the past four days have been all CAD all the time. That's the current state of the CAD model. We still have a lot…

For the most part we have been focusing on getting our CAD models complete over the past couple days. We're still working on our end effector but the majority of…

 We cleaned up our electrical wiring on the practice robot. This will make it easier to keep things safe and organized.  We also started cutting and drilling our support bars…

Lots of progress on the practice robot (robot 1) today. The electronics were mounted and wheels were chained together. We never actually got to put it on carpet and drive…

We had a busy day of CAD and routing parts. Today was the first real day of riveting as well. We've been making a ton of gussets on the Zenbot…

We really started getting into the construction of our versaframe based chassis today. Many of the parts we are 3D printing or CNC routing for the prototype to make sure…