Day 15 & 16

 Cone Intake TestingWe are pretty happy with the test version of the cone intake. It’s able to pick up tipped-over cones that have their tip ahead of the flange and…

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Day 12: Alpha Elevator Explained

Our Alpha elevator uses a timing belt and idler pulleys as its motion system. It’s designed around the 0.5” hole spacing on the REV Maxtube and uses the REV Max…

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Day 9: Alpha Elevator Assembly

Today we focused on mounting the Elevator onto the Alpha Chasis. A couple of unique things about it are the way we mount the crossbar and A-frame. Here is the…

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Day 8: Elevator and Controls

Elevator go brrr (doesn’t go brrr yet).Today we made a lot of progress on manufacturing alpha. We made an elevator using 2x1 REV MAXTube and the Thrifty Bot bearing blocks.…

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Day 7: 4-Bar

Switching to 4-bar from SliderWe are switching system 3 from a linear slider to a 4-bar linkage. This allows us to use our full elevator extension for raising the intake…

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Day 6: Alpha CAD started

We have decided to follow the 1678 model of building an alpha robot. We quickly realized while testing intake prototypes that we will likely need to bolt them onto an…

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