How I Work

Intake prototypes are finally running, took a little longer than we wanted with the ice days last week. It's working well for most cube orientations but we still aren't full…

Hook geometry to starting to take shape. We love this video by Adam Heard and 973 for designing pneumatic linkages. Drive train is moving along, it now has a belly pan…

Drive TrainDrive train CAD is starting to progress. We'll get the gearboxes and belly pan on over the weekend, and start working on the mounting points for the A F-frame. IntakeThe…

We did have our first meeting back after the winter storm. Most of the team spent the day at Memorial Hermann Hospital getting a tour of the new "da Vinci…

We couldn't meet Tuesday or Wednesday this due to hazardous road conditions and closed highways.We are too the stage we call Block CAD. None of parts are how they would…

We actually didn't meet for the first time in recent memory. The roads were iced and we have a deep freeze for over 24 hrs which rarely happens in Houston.Since…

Quick update again today. We are continuing some of the testing and finally deciding on a drive train. We didn't want to rush into our drive train design this year…

Just a short update of what we are working on. Our current plan is to have two seperate climbing methods depending on if we need to lift a partner or if…

Lifting PrototypesWe purchased a lever chain hoist this morning so that we could test different lifting concepts without having a robot cable of lifting another just quite yet.Keeping a partner…

We are a week into the season and a bunch of resources, examples, and documents have been published about the game. We're also giving links to some of the robots…