Build Day 22: Start of Week 4
It seems like forever a go we were watching the kickoff presentation but it's already nearing the half way point of the build season. We did most of the electrical…
Build 21
We were able to power the collector today with motors, the tests were promising but also pointed out a couple places that we need to fix things, such as how…
Build Day 20: Collector/elevator is coming together
The collector is now mounted on the robot, we had to mount it twice to fix some issues but that's why we are moving so quickly so we can catch…
Build Day 19: 4 weeks left till tools down
We made a huge amount of progress today because the final shipment of mechanical parts arrived. We were able to mount the upper bars that support the shooter assembly and…
Build Day 18
More assembly today. We made the Lexan back panel for our collector and elevator. We're using 1/16" Lexan because it's able to easily curve to the angles that we need…
Build Day 17: Starting to look like a robot
We are still waiting on some parts, but the main functions of the robot are coming together. The elevator should be complete by the end of the week. The upper…
Build Day 16: Waiting on Paint to Dry
We finished the constructing most of the upper poles today and got them painted. A lot of the day was waiting for the paint to dry. Tomorrow we can rivet…
Build Day 15: Robot is coming together
The robot progressed really far today. We have most of the drive train finished, minus a few chain runs. The brackets and gussets were all finished and painted and we…
Build Day 14
Started off the day discussing the Chairman's Award Submission. We want to get this going as early as possible so we have time to refine it before the submission deadline…
Build Day 13: Busy Day not just with the obot
Our build session started off with a presentation by the founders of BlueStampEngineering.com. They are bringing a summer engineering program to Houston and we thought it would be good for…