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
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