Robot Looks

Today the meeting ended at exactly 9 pm. We get so excited working it takes us a few minutes to actually get to the parking lot, though we did much better today wrapping things up. Liam asked me to let you all know if the Systems Integration Team finished up with the Chairman’s editing progress, but it isn’t quite done as of today. Lots of hard work there! Thanks to those skunks dedicated to it.

Also, in the shop we started adding the “belts” to the rollers - though they are more like plastic tubes that get soldered on the ends to stick together and complete the hoop. Given a choice between orange and clear, we picked the orange ones to hype up the robot’s appearance. Ah.. it’s looking so nice.

On another note, the SIM motors were mounted on the practice base today, and I think the electrical team will work on wiring them next. With the power distribution board and some pneumatics, the robot’s drive base is coming to life!  As always, progress during meetings gets more and more surprising each day. Our freshmen are quite good at finding things in the shop and this year’s veterans are exercising more leadership roles. We are definitely seeing (or should I say smelling?) plenty of each other now.

With 12 days till tag day we are meeting every day, so tomorrow as I understand it, we will have a meeting, and also on Sunday.

Thanks for checking in, 

Camila

Practice Field Ready, Practice Bot Ready, Let the Scrimmage Begin!

Today, being a college and career day meant that we didn’t have much going on during school. Thomas was able to work through most of the school day on programming. This paid off as we now have an almost entirely functional practice robot. The only thing not working at the moment is the gripper, which doesn’t have pneumatics wired to it. Hopefully we can have a robot out there scrimmaging most of the day tomorrow!

Speaking of scrimmaging, we need a field to play on. Every year we get down to the night before scrimmage and tons of people are asked to contribute, but only a few end up helping. It’s as if it just magically appears for us to play on! It would be nice if we could harness 30 skunks and finish in an hour, instead of 4 people over the course of an entire day.
Thanks to Michael and Reilly who worked 6+ hours straight after school, They left for dinner around 8 and we ended up finishing things up right as it was time to leave (janitor closing up around 10:30). I attached an embedded link to a video of today’s robot/field progress:

Tomorrow should be more enjoyable than today as we will have a full team showing (hopefully) to get the final robot ready and to organize the event, which may easily have a dozen teams present!