Day 35

  • We worked on the safety flyer

  • We worked on our Teacher of the Year Award, Business Plan, Team overview, and the Dean’s List Award

  • Members from the Robo-Knights came to our shop to use our Lathe to make gearbox shafts and bushing and bearing cups

  • We made a CRUSH-bot cookie cutter so one of our parents can make cookies for our Feb 21st Presentation

  • We milled and welded the hex pieces

  • We designed and machined our battery mount

  • We mounted our turret motor, and OUR TURRET SPINS!!!!!!!!

  • We tested and then redesigned our drive for the collector motor.

  • We figured out how to mount our bumpers and mounted one of them!

  • The animators finished the space ship

Main Achievement:We attached almost all of our electronics onto the e-board

Day 34

  • We planned for our Feb 21st Presentation

  • We CADed the shooter wheel plates

  • We made the Hex for our turret

  • We made the mount for our motor that drives the turret

  • We worked on the gear box for our collectors

  • We finished the front of our safety flier

  • We attached all of the belts and collectors

  • We mounted the elevator and the motor to operate the elevator

  • We worked on the Deans List Award

Main Achievement: WE SUBMITTED CHAIRMANS!

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

Day 30

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Day 21

  • We tested our 2011 robot to make sure everything was working so we can do a demonstration tomorrow

  • We updated the sponsors page on our website

  • We repaired all of our batteries and now they have orange and blue electrical tape on them :D

  • We cleaned off our back table so we can start assembling the robot

  • We welded part of our frame

  • We worked on milling our mecanum wheel mount plates and are about half way done

  • We turned our outer shooter hubs down some more on the lathe

  • We wrote the newsletter and will send out the newsletter in the morning

  • We inventoried our Jaguars and found out we have way too many - a very good thing

  • We tested our distance sensor and found it was very accurate

Main Achievement:We cut the metal for our ball elevator and milled it. Now our ball elevator is complete!