Day 13: Parts arrive and more CNC routing
Our VEXpro order came in today that included our drive gearboxes, and some other parts of our chassis. We also started using our new router more to help with the…
Day 12: Putting some new toys to work
As part of our move to our new lab, we got a CNC router and new 3D printer. Today we had them hard at work. We setup the router to…
Day 11: CADing and Printing
We fixed a few things with the prototype robot, but most of the day was spent CADing. We also have our 3D printer making very accurate parts out of polycarbonate…
Day 10: Finalizing Designs
We're into Week 2 and we have started finalizing our designs. We tested out an option to lower only a single wheel to allow us to strafe and it looks…
Day 9: 1st Boot Camp Build Day
Sorry for the delayed post, we had a long weekend. Yesterday we opened our lab to 6 other local teams so they could collaborate with us as we all worked…
Day 8: More Prototyping
Today we worked more on our prototypes. Tote Puller Here is the working version of our tote puller. This mechanism will be used to retrieve the totes from their starting…
Day 7: Prototyping Continues
We made progress on some of our prototypes today. 4-Bar Lift We added a tilt to the lift to aid in the lifting and releasing of the totes. Hopefully, this…
Day 6: 4-Bar & the Q&A
4-Bar Arm Prototype This is our current arm prototype. It can stack totes and put an RC (Recycling Container) on top of 4 scored totes. Problems we are still trying…
Day 5: Ideal Alliance Partner
We did more work on the 4-bar prototype today and got it lifting totes and containers. We will release videos in tomorrow's post. We had to make slight modifications to…
Day 4: More Prototyping & 4-Bar CAD
We worked out a few more iterations and developments today but made no major changes. We started looking at quick ways to drag totes from the landfill. We could use…
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