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Day 4 was spent traveling to Texarkana in preparation for our first regional in Little Rock. We got to Texarkana with very little trouble, just a lot of rain. The…

The 2nd rev is progressing, very little time left. We should be able to test tomorrow.

The last month has been challenging. We had faced a number of set backs with our current design. We started with a twisted and sheared hex shaft during our Week…

After we posted some videos and our CAD part of the feedback we got was people asking us about our collector choice. We liked the passive collector for it's simplicity…

The last few days had been uneventful. We had some failed tests and we have been working through some potential solutions. Tonight we tested one of the solutions which was…

We finally got our cylinders in place for most functions today. We ran out of time to be able to drive test but that should be going quickly tomorrow. Here's…

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…