Day 24: Batteries are finished
CAD is still progressing, and the first of the machined parts are being made at TXRX Labs and Solarcraft Inc. We did a few cuts for the extrusion that will…
CAD is still progressing, and the first of the machined parts are being made at TXRX Labs and Solarcraft Inc. We did a few cuts for the extrusion that will…
Today we were on hand at the 2nd kit bot build day of the Ultimate Ascent season. We had a smaller turn out than expected, but we're opening our lab…
Spectrum was on hand to help run the 2nd day of the HoustonISD VEX Robotics League. It's been great working with so many new robotics teams this year. We were…
That is the current CAD that we are finished with so far. All the electronic mounts have been sent to Solarcraft. The rest of the robot is coming along; we're…
Note: For more on this setup go to this CD thread (starts at about post #61). There might be ways to cut off less of the CIM shaft and still only…
Week three seems to be slipping away faster than the previous two. CADing takes a lot of time and we have to get parts laser cut very soon. We've been…
We're still working on getting all our systems designed in CAD. We hadn't thought through several of them till today. Here is the current CAD version of our "Can Opener"…
Lately, most of the work has been in CAD, but we are still working on a few systems and details that aren't finished being prototyped yet. Here is a picture…
Nothing spectacular to show yet. We still have some things we haven't published on the blog that are integral to our strategy this year. Hopefully, in the next few weeks…
Into week three and we're charging ahead. We briefly tried prototyping a floor pickup mechanism that shot the discs up a ramp to the top of a tall robot. We…