Day 20

  • We received a donation of $200 from Mechanical Systems, so we would like to thank them for that.

  • We finished making the inner support pieces for our frame

  • We finished the wheel spacers.

  • Welded more of our frame.

  • We broke one mill but its alright because we fixed it

  • We fixed the vice on our other mill

  • Glued more bottle caps.

  • We started turning our motor side outer shooter hub on the lathe.

  • We figured out which motor we want to use for the ball collector.

  • We cut out even more metal for more of our frame so we can attach our idler wheels.

  • Programmers made the backboard tracking even better and faster!

  • Animators finished some animation segments and it is looking awesome! They also worked on more props for the animation

Main Achievement: We did a kinetic energy analysis on the ball collector, rollers, belts, and pulleys

Day 19

  • We received our mecanum wheels, 3 new CIM motors, and our new camera!

  • We put together all of our mecanum wheels.

  • We glued more pin backs onto our buttons.

  • We worked on turning down our center shooter hub on the lathe.

  • We worked more on our frame support and will finish those tomorrow.

  • We welded together our wheel spacers and will finish drilling holes tomorrow so we can weld the frame.

  • Animators made some more schools so now they have 3 different schools from 3 different countries!

Main Achievement:Programmers hooked up the new camera and they improved their PID(Position Integral Derivative) for the image tracking.

Day 18

  • We glued more pin backs onto our buttons

  • The Animators worked on improving the school

  • We worked on the center shooter hub on the lathe

  • Programmers got the camera to start moving by itself and can now auto-track the squares

  • We designed the bearing box so we can finish milling them tomorrow

Main Achievement: We drilled all the holes in our frame and are ready to continue welding tomorrow

Day 16, Sunday

  • We finished our transmission for our ball collector.

  • Members of the Bit buckets ( a rookie team) came to visit our shop and we shared ideas and then we helped them with their organization.

  • We glued more of the buttons together.

  • We updated our news section on our website as well as other aspects of our team.

  • Programmers solved their networking issue and then posted it on Chief Delphi to help the other teams in the future!

Main Achievement: We almost finished our prototype for our ball elevator so we can test it tomorrow!!

Day 15

  • We finished our application for free promotional items from the cause to promote program

  • We finished drilling all the holes in our bottle caps

  • We finished cutting up all the bottle caps and our thank you cards

  • We started gluing the pin backs on the bottle caps and glued almost 100!

  • We started making our CRUSH can hair accessories

  • We ordered our wheels, motors, hubs, transmissions, and longer shafts as well as the spring for our basketball hoops

  • The Programmers worked on more networking and got closer to the solution!

  • The Animators animated a school for this years animation!

Main Achievement: We re-designed our frame in CAD so we can now start cutting on Saturday