Accomplishments of Week 15

We really crunched down today getting our roll cage onto the robot not only song to it's support but we also created a two plate system for our wiring for quick access and a better wire management system. Well probably be returning throughout the break but for those of us celebrating the holiday, happy thanksgiving!

Goals of Week 15

Today were starting on creating a chassis inside the robot instead of externally switching up our drive train to a the wheel one to one gear ratio drive. 

GOALS:
Create a solid chassis that supports our inner drive train and a nice 3 wheel drive
Figure out the layout of our robot

Accomplishments of Week 14

This week was filled mainly with working on our video project halting our other activities until completion so not much pictures to show any progress were taken  but here are some of the stills from the video

Our goals were met though as we did record an overall narration of the video, we did get everyone's clips recorded , and shaina is currently taking the video clips home to piece together so that i may edit in final.

Goals of week 14

The weekend was quite the long one, While everyone rested and went partying i stayed home to test some VFX on the robot. Spending roughly 5 hours total with the robot, a lazy susan, a green screen, and my camera i took tons of footage to hopefully get the result of a floating model. However due to the metal reflecting the light the footage came out choppy and distorted leaving it unusable. This was good though not only did i get to learn more about how to use graphics we also saved time by realizing we couldn't pull this off. Our goals for this week are mainly to continue on what we were working on last week.

GOALS
Finish the rough draft of the video
Get everyone clips recorded
Record a nice sounding overall narration
Finish everything up so we can get back to working on the robot

Accomplishments of week 13

So we've all been hard at work to get this video done and even though we decided that it would be boring im still trying to turn it up just a little bit. We all compiled good scripts around 30 seconds or less and have even filmed a decent amount of the scenes. I have been trying to figure out the best way to add in some really cool vfx but on our tight timeline it might be hard. Along with that Shaina has been assembling our clips and putting them into a draft copy so it will be easier to compile. Im taking the robot home to practice some vfx over the weekend to test if ill be capable of them at a later time, All is going right on track!

Heres some screenshots of it

Goals of Week 13

WE DID IT! Well sort of, After going to the competition Saturday we learned a lot and got a huge amount of inspiration for ideas. Instantly the flow of ideas are just all over the place but were simmering them down for a little bit as we've put the full robot on hold for now as we are focusing solely on our engineering video putting everyone at a pause but were all focusing solely on our individual segments the make one rad video.

GOALS:
Have the video scripted and parts assigned
Have an idea of the voice over portion
Get Everyone to start working on their clips and segments.

Hanging high and above!

Big break through was made today as we raised our clearance over the field around 1 inch or so which is much higher than our previous system by moving the endofactor down by about and inch. Looking good were getting ready to move onto our autonomous systems!

Accomplishments of week 12 in preparation for the competition tomorrow!

Im posting this on Saturday of week 11 instead of Friday due to all the changes that took place after school Friday up into Saturday morning. We had very long week, full of hardcore devotion, constant marathons of stays after school and a huge amount of work that was put into accomplishing our goals. We in the end were able to get our robot to hang and programmed it for autonomous whiles also prepared an endofactor for picking up the cubes which we mounted onto the linear slide. We didnt believe we could finish in time so we took the liberty of taking the robot to matts house and pulled an all nighter full of monster, GtaV, foosball, and building an amazing robot. In the end before the competition we had so much new stuff that pics themselves couldnt describe it all so heres our first video :D










People might remember a lot of things about high school but for me...This is one of them

Goals of week 12

This week we want to have our endofactor mounted onto our new system for lifting which we also want to have done.
GOALS: Get the robot to be able to lift and do autonomous by Saturday, how we plan on going about this is a dual lift linear slide and a passive endofactor