Bye Seniors

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.

Manic Monday

This week we hope to finish the autonomous ball challenge. We have most of the programming done already but are still making adjustments.  We also plan on doing our weekly tightening to keep the robot from falling apart.

Racquetball Solidworks

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. 

Back at it again with the technical difficulties

We began to practice for the ball challenge but the robot was really unstable. We spent today tightening everything and and creating stability by adding a support system from the base to the tower. We hope to finish the autonomous ball challenge by Friday. 

Ball challenge, party of one.

Thursday we finally finished the autonomous triangle challenge. Friday we began to work on our ball challenge. Alot of the parts we wanted were already taken by 4th hour so we had to create our own design that consist of a Y shaped arm and two gears that poll the ball into the cradle.

Success?

Finally. after what seemed like forever, we completed the autonomous tetrahedron challenge on our second attempt for the day. To get it to work, we had to slow down our robot completely, which mean essentially changing everything. 

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 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.

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.

SolidWorks: Update

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.

Mikayla master fixer upper

We added another L bracket on the elbow of our arm for stability. We also fixed the problem with our gears hitting the floor by tightening all our the bolts and screws. We also re-made our hook so it reached higher and longer. We spent the rest of the week practicing.

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).

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.

Finishing solid

This week we finished Solidworks.

Off to the races

Our goals for the week is to get our robot working in autonomous mode. We are almost done with our solid works, we still have to add our brain on. We decided to use a different coding programming than usual, the same one we used in virtual world. We need to get our 3 laps done.

Running in circles

Our Solidworks assembly is still coming along. We also fixed the inverted controls of our robot so it is easier to operate. Yesterday we hooked it up to the computer and used RobotC to program it to move autonomously.

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. 

Brains of the Operation

Mr. Martin told us we had to find a creative way to attach the brain and create a battery holder as well. We put the brain on the top and are working on bending these metal pieces to use for the battery. We also started our Solidworks assembly. 

Blog Fog

Finalizing our blogs might be our setback this week. Although we don't have a lot to finish with our robot, we now might not finish until Wednesday. None of our bios were finished, and all of our posts needed work. We also have to finish our Solid works assembly by this week as well. 

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.