Week 5 (3/18-3/22) Outcome

After weeks of repeatedly rebuilding this robot and its crucifix arm, we are finally ready to test it in the Arena of Tetrahedrons.

So our robot underwent a gruelling, nerve-wracking trial and we managed to get three triangles on midlevel.

And now, we must depart for spring break. We'll be back in a week!

Week 5 (3/18-3/22) Goals

Dylan and Tyler stayed after school to expand on the robot's arm. They added a seperate tower with gears and a motor.

We added an entirely new appendage to this part of the robot: a long, hooked arm that will be lifting the tetrahedrons onto the white tubes in the Arena.

Week 4 (3/11-3/15) Outcome

Today, we started a partial disassembly of the bot.

This is, to my knowledge, the skeleton of a new metal arm designed to lift the straw tetrahedral.

Look at Tyler, acting like he owns the place...

Oh, and Frank just finished our SolidWorks model of the robot.

Now THAT'S craftsmanship.

Week 4 (3/11-3/15) Goals

A new challenge: by next week, our robot has to be able to lift this:

Onto this:

Starting tomorrow, we will have to dissemble parts of the robot to include a long arm suited for the task next week.

Week 3 (3/4-3/8) Outcome



We spent much of today programming the robot's Autonomous and doing SolidWorks.

 

We tested it out in the Arena.

For the most part, the Autonomous was successful, but we're still going to have to make a few tweaks. It would do a little "twitch" before following its programming, for example.

Week 3 (3/4-3/8) Goals

Our group's goals for this week include:


Complete the Autonomous (the robot's "autopilot").

Complete the SolidWorks model of the robot.






Complete this blog.

 

Week 2 (2/25-3/1) Outcome

With a few persisting problems, we presented our robot to Mr. Martin, and while it preformed OK, he was able to find quite a few problems with it, mainly that the gears wouldn't stay aligned.

He showed us how to use spacers (the black things) to get the gears to stay in place.

This day, we completed the basic robot. Works fine... except for the Autonomous.