Week 9 (4/22 - 4/26) Goals

Last week, our primary difficulty with the racquetball challenge was that we couldn't get the ball inside the continuum initially. We would drive the ball into a wall then try to force the ball inside. The reason it was near-impossible to get in was the top bar of the end effector, which I suggested we bend back:

Voila! Not sure why, but the end effector reminds us of a serpent or dragon of some sort...

Anyway, with that problem out of the picture, our second-biggest problem was the friction of the wall when we would move the ball up. Twice now, we've dislocated our gears trying to force the ball, and it is quite time-consuming to realign them.

As you can see, the bottom gear has been dislocated...  =(

We will continue to come up with solutions to these obstacles, and, no doubt, encounter new ones throughout the week.