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 30

Day 28

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!

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 10

Monday
  • We finished the button design

  • Website: We are working on updating our media page, and the contact page. We updated the news page. We added a page for the Arizona FIRST Student Division

  • The programmers programmed a jaguar and servos so now we can control the launcher and camera.

  • Programmers also started learning how to transfer data

  • Our frame is framed in CAD

  • We decided on motors(that we have!) and started designing the gearboxes for them and they just need to be CADed

  • The Robo-knights visited us and we collaborated

Main Achievement: Our frame being CADed and that we know how we want to do everything, and the shooter can now hopefully shoot from anywhere.

Day 9

  • We uploaded the News section on our website

  • We did some other minor changes to the website

  • We started making the mentor cards for our website

  • We worked on chairmans

  • The animators kept animating

  • We worked on dimensions and how exactly we want to design the robot so we can CAD it tonight

  • The programmers finished imaged processing and now we have the original image with a red box overlay so we have the coordinates

  • The Nerds from Sierra Vista visited and we collaborated

Main Achievement: Last night members of our team went to one of our sponsors, Hanlon Engineering and started drawing up the robot using a program called Plant 3D. We now have our drive train, turret, and shooter designed but we need to make the details for everything.