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

Our new shirts!

Day 41

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

Our robot is looking pretty good so far!

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 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.