Fin.

Hey folks, this is an important announcement:

This blog will no longer be used by our team. Our team will be joining forces with Team Gets for the final VEX robot challenge, and all future blog posts will be on their blog:
http://teamgets.blogspot.com

Week 11 (5/6 - 5/10) Goals

We're raising the flag, throwing in the towel, however you wanna say it. 60/100. Good news is: we've done the SolidWorks finally. Behold!

(I'm sorry the SolidWorks picture can't be larger, but the next size up would send it off the page).


We will now disassemble our racquetball robot and proceed with the new challenge. It's chassis (basic skeleton) is already in production. Oh, and that's not an optical illusion. It's really that big.

Week 10 (4/29 - 5/3) Outcomes

This week, we lowered the position of the gears on the tower, so the end effector would end up lower relative to the hoop.

We've also been trying to attach an effective counterweight to the back, so that the robot doesn't topple forward or swerve unpredictably with any sudden movement.

The black gears on the end effector were free to move back and forth along the axle, and that was inferring with the continuum. This little wheel is a quick-fix, makeshift addition to prevent further difficulty.

On Friday, we finally tested our functional, albeit flawed, robot. We scored a lackluster 75/120, which was then sadly reduced to 55/120 because we were supposed to have this challenge completed a few days ago. We will improve the design on Monday, test it again, and hopefully score far higher. Dylan will complete the SolidWorks over the weekend.