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

Goals of week 10

Alright the new challenge is up and we are more than prepared for it.
The challenge is in two weeks to have an autonomous period resulting in one cube scored, and to have a Tele op period resulting in four cubes scored in four different boxes in a minute or less...

GOALS: our goal by the end of this week is to have an arm our system able to pick up the blocks efficiently and by the end of next week to have it programmed to be able to pick up those blocks alone autonomously...

Upon the return

So after a field trip of being gone for a few days I came back to find a lot of improvements to the robot. The first being the redone wiring to allow for a more accessible motor controller system. Next being the wheels gear system now improved and geared up for now speed. Other than that it's looking good and ready to hang tomorrow :D

Thanks engineering!

This honestly has nothing to do with our in class engineering but I thought it related so why not? So here I am trying to learn this new plugin to emulate particles to a obj 3d object in a 3d space because the outcome looks beautiful and I couldn't figure out how to use it at all, after four hours of tutorials I was ready to give up when I realized something this plugin had a front, back, side, top, and isometric view. Just like in solidworks than when it wanted me to define the planes I literally found it was almost the exact same thing, by doing this I got my final result at roughly 3am this morning. So there you go a case that truly hours to sore that engineering can apply to all aspects of modern technology, thanks engineering :D