Day 44: Two Days, Two Robots?
18 Hour days and we still have a lot to got on our competition robot. The competition robot will be wired tomorrow and it will takes it first shoots just hours away…
18 Hour days and we still have a lot to got on our competition robot. The competition robot will be wired tomorrow and it will takes it first shoots just hours away…
We didn't get much driving in today at the Week 0, due to some technical problems we were trying to fix. However we did get the practice robot ready enough…
We'll be putting in lots of hours over the next the weekend and it started today. A lot of us were here till 2am trying to get the practice bot…
Tomorrow starts are last weekend of build session. We'll be building pretty much strait through till bag day to get our competition robot ready to be bagged. That's the state of…
We hadn't done much testing of the tilt mechanism until today. It still needs work but it's at least closer than it was yesterday. We'll have surgical tubing helping it…
Things are looking up again. The solution from yesterday was tested today and it worked perfectly. Here's a video of our floor collection tests. We made some improvements to the lift. Moving…
All our powder coated parts came back today. That was a huge positive. We have one week to get the robot together. Our normal lab space was being used for…
Today was spent mostly making pieces for our competition robot. We also had to swap out some rollers on our drive train. We're still having a few lift issues and…
We were able to put on the pop-up can opener hanging device today. It's still in prototype form but we managed to get directly over the center of gravity on…
We had to disassemble most of the robot today to be able iterate several of the systems. The lift came off so we could double the spring force helping it extend. The…