Day 32

Day 32

  • We went to Tucson High to borrow their bender and bent all of our pieces for our shooter! Thank you Tucson High!

  • We started turning down the turret drive wheel

  • We worked on the bumpers and bought the rest of the material for them.

  • We had a pool noodle fight and one of our mentors even joined in :D

  • We cut out the E-board (Emma board) and it fits on our robot

Main Achievement: Our tower is completely welded

Q:Pretty good! We just started putting pieces together...our team is so small this year >.< Good luck out there!

teenymeleeny

Good luck to you too! :)

Our robot is looking pretty good so far!

Day 31

  • We finished designing for our turret

  • We made mounts for the turret

  • We received our sticker paper so we will hopefully get those printed this week

  • We bought plastic for our skin, metal for our shooter, and more welding gas

  • Programmers collected everything we need for the e-board

  • We worked on the Teacher of the Year Award

  • We grounded the sub-frame

  • We made circles so we can bend the metal for our shooter tomorrow

  • We finished the wooden bumper backs for our bumpers

  • We cut out the E-board

  • We turned down the end caps for the collector

  • Animators did animating, and there ship is super awesome

  • We were very productive all around and everyone was working hard!

Main Achievement: We welded the tower and mounted the turret

Day 31

Day 30

  • We bought Duct Tape, brackets, fabric for bumpers, and grippy tape

    • Made slots for our ball collector

    • Programmers put tape on the backboards and tested it

    • We finished our newsletter and sent it out

    • Kelly from Purple Plasma, team 2403, came and collaborated with us

    • Nick and Daniel from the NERDS, team 1726, came and collaborated as well:)

    • We worked on fixing our lathe

    • We worked on the bumpers

    Main Achievement: We figured out how we are going to attach the ball elevator to the robot and made the necessary alterations to make it work.

Day 30

Day 29

  • We finished our gear box for the turret
  • We worked on the bumpers
  • We CADed the lexan ball director
  • We planned a lot of the Dell Presentation
  • We made the turret spin!
  • We worked on improving our driver station

Main Achievement: WE FINISHED THE CHAIRMAN’S ESSAY AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Day 29