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Read more about the article Day 19 & 20: CAD, Arm Linkages, & Frame Building

Day 19 & 20: CAD, Arm Linkages, & Frame Building

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 23, 2015
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Read more about the article Day 18: Cleaning up the wiring & building structure

Day 18: Cleaning up the wiring & building structure

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 21, 2015
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 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…

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Day 17: Drivetrain Video

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 20, 2015
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Short post today. We got the complete prototype drive train working. Please note the pneumatic is just for the real robot will be much smaller. That's just what we had…

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Read more about the article Day 16: Drive Train is put together

Day 16: Drive Train is put together

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 19, 2015
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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…

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Read more about the article Day 15: Drive Train Coming Together

Day 15: Drive Train Coming Together

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 18, 2015
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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…

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Read more about the article Day 14: Ramping Up Production

Day 14: Ramping Up Production

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 17, 2015
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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…

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Read more about the article Day 13: Parts arrive and more CNC routing

Day 13: Parts arrive and more CNC routing

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 16, 2015
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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…

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Read more about the article Day 12: Putting some new toys to work

Day 12: Putting some new toys to work

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 15, 2015
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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…

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Read more about the article Day 11: CADing and Printing

Day 11: CADing and Printing

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 14, 2015
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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…

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Day 10: Finalizing Designs

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 13, 2015
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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…

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