Friday 4/29/16

What we've accomplished 

This week, again being a short week because of testing, we started building the racquetball holder. There were no more black wheels left (most people used black rubber wheels to spin the ball into a holder), so we decided to try a unconventional method.  We made a contraption that would enclose the ball on three sides, resembling a claw. 

Monday 4/25

This week we hope to use compound gears to allow our arm to carry the weight from the claw to pick up the ball successfully. This is Juan Cabrera's compound gear that we hope to replicate.

What we've accomplished 4/22/16

Friday , April 22nd 

This week was a short week because of super testing days, so not much was accomplished. Mister Martin was out on Monday so we spent that time working on solid works but then we realized that there is no grade recovery for that so we scraped it. Last Friday we began autonomous and this Thursday we tweaked it to a point where it is on the right track. Today, we are going to hopefully finish autonomous tetrahedron challenge or at least be close to finishing.

Monday, April 18th Goals

Tetrahedron Challenge Autonomous

We are quite behind with our autonomous but we are very close to getting it. The goal is to get the bot to place the tetrahedron onto the stand all on its own. We still need to adjust how much the claw goes up and when to make it release the tetrahedron. Once that is done, we can move onto the racquet ball challenge.

April 15

We successfully completed our challenge to pick up the three tetrahedrons and put them on the spoke! It took many tries but on our last try we did it! We also began working on autonomously completing the same task but with only one tetrahedron.

Monday April 11th 2016 4/11/16

Monday goals

This week ,we hope to finish the tetrahedron challenge and begin to work on the autonomous tetrahedron challenge. We also need to make small adjustments to the "claw" so it can pick up and drop off the tetrahedron optimally. while trying the tetrahedron challenge As for Solidworks, we are still trying to figure out how to do the base and incorporate the claw.

Friday, April 8th Arm Progess

Building the Arm:

By the end of the week, we managed to get the arm up and get the motor to work with the arm. We did face some problems with the arm but we ended up fixing it by changing the programming. The single long screw that prevents the tetrahedron from falling proved to be ineffective so we plan on changing it next week.

Week of April 4

This week we hope to build the arm for our task. We are going to have one minute to make our robot pick up three tetrahedrons and place them on a spoke. The parts below are what we need to make the arm.

Fridayt 4/1/16 What We Accomplished so far

Friday 4/1/2016

What we accomplished this week: We did a lot, some good and some bad. We continued our SolidWorks assemble but unfortunately it did not go very well and we made little progress.  Luckily, we were able to finish our autonomous test in time (by Thursday), even with our wheel falling off a couple of times while practicing.