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!

2012 Robot - Yoshimi
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2012 Robot - Yoshimi

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 36

  • We attached our battery mount

  • We wired our e-board

  • We re-taped our batteries so the wires were facing the way we wanted

  • We started working on CAN for our jaguars

  • We put holes in our hex so we can mount it

  • We finished our plates for our shooter mount

Main Achievement: WE GOT OUR ROBOT DRIVING!

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 30

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