Day 45

  • We welded the additional pieces for the extra bearings

  • We finished painting the bumpers

  • Programmers finished making the wiring all pretty and ran more testing

  • We re-attached the collectors

  • We figured out what we want to keep as part of our 30 pounds

  • We finished everything for our presentation and pep assemblies tomorrow

  • We made sure everything is functioning and is ready to go for our pep assembly and presentations tomorrow. That way we can bag the robot right after.


ONE MORE DAY GUYS!! GOOD LUCK <3

Day 44

  • We finished covering the last bumper in fabric and started painting them. We have 4 of 8 sides painted

  • We cut and milled the mounts for the extra bearings for the turret

  • We made a vibration isolator for the camera mount

  • We ordered LEDs

  • We finished most of the Bill of Materials

  • Drivers practiced more

  • We finished and sent out our newsletter

  • Programmers re-programmed the aiming software to rotate the camera directly on the turret directly rather then the servos

  • We turned down more collector end caps on the lathe


Main Achievement: Programmers also adapted the shooter aiming code to use motor pulsing for fine control

Our new shirts!

Day 43

We went to Duel in the Desert and learned the following things:


  • Our turret pops off so we need to add more support for that.

  • We need a current control for the collector motors and other motors

  • We need a better camera mount(do we need a tilt?)

  • We need to improve limit switches
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Main Achievement: We can shoot baskets from the other side of the field

Day 42

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Day 39

  • We finished attaching our ball guide rail

  • We finished both Deans List essays and will submit those tomorrow

  • We updated our media page on the website and worked on the other pages

  • We worked on making our gear box for the collectors

  • We worked on the shooter rail guide

  • We finished our shooter hubs(??)

  • Animators worked on the animation

Main Achievement: Programmers finished re-attaching the E-board and planned the wiring for the turret

Day 38

  • Programmers re-attached the Emma board with bolts and took off the cRIO to re-mount it

  • We worked on our shooter hubs

  • We started covering our bumpers and worked on mounting them

Main Achievement: We finished our shooter mount plates and attached them to our turret. It spins beautifully :D

Day 39

Day 38