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.