Tuesday Work Day

We just worked on our shooting and driving today. So far it is looking like the shooter design we have chosen is going to be more trouble than anything else. For some reason the balls all have different consistencies so they all shoot differently. Our next meeting is not until next Saturday. Hopefully we can have all the bugs in the shooter worked out in time before Boilermaker in March. It's looking better every day!

Jessica Bennett

Mechanical/Blog Team

Post Ship/Bag&Tag Day

There was not a whole lot to do tonight. Basically we just worked on getting the prototype bot in working condition. This means working on the program, fixing the sensors, making sure the turret works, and generally tweaking things. Hopefully by tomorrow we will have a drivable and otherwise fully functional robot so that we can work on our accuracy and driving.

Jessica Bennett

Mechanical/Blog

 

Clean up day

Today was largely focused around cleaning up after build season.  There were a lot of tools and other things left lying around.  Other than that, we worked on assembling the second robot for drive practice.

The programmers discovered a 'very cool fan', while cleaning up their station.  Other than that, they too assisted with getting the second robot functional.  Other than that, almost nothing of note occurred.

Matthew Shaffer

 CAD/Mechanical Team

Week 6: Day 39

Tonight is our final day to work on our robot before it has to go into a sealed bag until competition. We finally got everything working and even did a little shooting practice in the gym across the street. We also fixed everything that didn't work at the scrimmage match, hopefully everything will still work when we get to Boilermaker...

Jessica Bennett

Mechanical/Blog Team

Here are some pictures from our "Bag and Tag" night.

We would not have a working robot with out our programmers!

We play tag too :)

Drive team practice

Almost a 3 point shot!

Ball sweeper

Bagged and Tagged...

Right at 11:59...

and put in a corner, not to be moved until Boilermaker.

Week 6: Day 38

Tonight, many things we learned at the scrimmage were fixed. We adjusted the sweepers, bumpers, and shooting mechanism. We changed our driving system from tank drive to arcade drive, and added a light to our sensor so it could better see the ball when it entered the robot.

Ryan
Mechanical Team