This week we finished the autonomous ball challenge and disassembled our claw-bot. We began the pulling challenge and began to build a new bot. We lengthened it but did not widen it. We tested it out today but our wheels have no traction so we will try to add rubber bands on the outside of the wheel Monday.
Friday, May 20, 2016
Monday, May 16, 2016
Manic Monday
Friday, May 13, 2016
Fun Friday?
This week we accomplished the ball challenge and began to work on the autonomous ball challenge. Today we ended with most of the coding done but not 100% complete. We also finished our Solidworks of the added basket and new arm that is shaped like a Y that we built to support it better.
Monday, May 9, 2016
Back at it again with the technical difficulties
Friday, May 6, 2016
Ball challenge, party of one.
Monday, May 2, 2016
Success?
Friday, April 29, 2016
Work work work
We fixed the twitching problem that we had previously mentioned in the last post, but programming our robot to do the tetrahedron challenge autonomously is proving to be more difficult than we hoped. We plan on finishing the challenge by today.
Monday, April 25, 2016
Monday Pun-day
This week we are focusing on programming the robots arm in autonomous. Its going to be difficult to complete on time because we lose Tuesday and Wednesday to testing. Right now our robot has a weird twitching movement before if runs our programming but we are going to fix it first thing.
Friday, April 22, 2016
If you believe you will achieve (And you will succeed)
After tightening virtually every screw on our robot and fine tuning our new design, it was finally ready to go for the remote control tetrahedron challenge. We also attached the brain to the claw, and we now have easier access to it. Our updated design seems much more promising, especially when we completed the challenge.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Stability is the major key
Our current focus is on making the robot arm more stable. We're working on adding a second metal bar to hold the arm in place.
Friday, April 15, 2016
Mikayla master fixer upper
Monday, April 11, 2016
Back to work
This week we need to finish building our arm and begin learning how to control the it. After we accomplish that, we have to be able to autonomously program the robot to put the tetrahedron onto the hooks. We began to build the arm Friday, but decided that the design was inefficient and we started over today.
Our old design we took apart. |
Our new design we intend to use(robot not ours). |
Friday, April 8, 2016
3rd times a charm
This week had some technical difficulties. We lost an entire day figuring out why our left side wheels wouldn't rotate. Through the process of elimination, we discovered that it was the motors axle that had come out and wasn't turning them. We then finished our programming and completed our official run on the first try. Thursday we started the next challenge and began to build our arm.
Building our arm. |
Finding out what was wrong with the left motor. |
Making our laps. |
Monday, April 4, 2016
Off to the races
Friday, April 1, 2016
Running in circles
Monday, March 28, 2016
Attack of the Squarebot
This week we hope to get further along with our SolidWorks assembly by dividing up different parts. Our robot is working, but somehow the controls were inverted. If this becomes a problem in the future we will try to figure it out, but for now it seems okay.
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Brains of the Operation
Monday, March 14, 2016
Blog Fog
Friday, March 11, 2016
Nuts about Building
We got our chassis rails and bumper completely assembled along with the motor,and have added the 36 tooth gears as well the 60 tooth gears. All that is left is securing the panel and adding the tires. We had some misplaced screws but we fixed them. We will resume assembling on Monday and will hopefully be done by Tuesday.
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