End of the week (Accomplishments)

Arm-joint & coding 

This week we worked on joint of our robots arm and the gear ratio for it. Micheal worked on the code for the drive piece of our robot. The arm-joint is currently being worked and we are much further in the building of our it than we were on Monday.

Coded brain

Arm-gears

Beginning of the week (Goals)

Tweaking & Code 

End of factor (Front Veiw)

This week we plan to make sure that all the screws on our robot are tight and that all axles are straight, as the majority of the basic building is completed. As some of our team members work on that, Micheal plans to make the coding of our robot work better than it does now.

Tightening all the screw 

End of factor (Back View)

End of the week (Accomplishments)

Programming and Finalizing 

This week we accomplished got done with most what we had hoped to. We programmed the brain to drive but it still remains some what faulty. We also continued to work on the design of our robot, optimizing certain aspects and improving others. This includes the arm, parts of the chassis, and the base for the robot.

Programming the brain

Back view of robot

Beginning of the week (Goals)

End-of-Factor

This week we plan to work on the end-of-factor for our game. Our plan for this is to construct a "scooper" device for picking up balls and throwing/dunking them. We also want to have our robot working with a remote control, to a higher extent then it is now. We want to have ample time to be able to have our robot practice our challenge so we can tell what doesn't work and what we can improve on. Though-out the week we will continue to edit and critique our bot.

Front Isometric view

Brain/Battery/Receiver setup

End of the week (Accomplishments)

Chassis and arm completed

This week we completed the chassis and installed the drive trains. Micheal built a prototype of our robots arm and added a base for it. I tested all the motors and batteries to ensure that are functional before we progress. Wheels have been installed, and with a test brain, we saw that our robot can move in a straight line with the speed we had hoped to reach to be successful at our challenge. We did not get as far as we planned at the beginning of the week, however, we did achieve the majority of our goals.

Arm prototype 

Completed chassis.

Beginning of the week (Goals)

Gear-ratio and Arm 

This week we plan to continue developing aspects of our robot. Today we plan too continue working on our drive train & gear ratios. We hope too have this done by tomorrow so we then begin too work on the arm for our robot. After completing these two objectives we hope too have at least one or two days at the end of the week too program and make sure everything is working properly in preparation for the challenge.

Now with wheels!

Drive-train

End of the week (Accomplishments)

Building process underway

This week we began construction on our robot  and were on pace for the most part earlier on. We had completed the chassis and were working on the claw however we had a change in planS and decided to redo the structure on the robot. Initially the chassis was a U shape and we had planned to have the claw in the middle of the robot. Now however we are working on a square chassis with a claw that will retrieve balls from the exterior rather than have it roll into the center.

Updated chassis

Game plan

Beginning of the week (Goals)

Starting the New Challenge

This week we plan to start building the robot for the challenge we created. Our hopes are too complete the chassis as well as most of the other aspects of the robot by Friday this week. One of which is a arm mechanism to pick up the balls for the game. This is to ensure that we have ample time to program and problem solve in the following week.

Redistributed parts in our box

Early stages of construction

End of the week (Accomplishments)

New challenges:

Cleaning the boxes

This week we got done with most of what we needed to begin building our robots on Monday. We took apart the robots from the previous challenge and for the most part organized them properly. The concept for the next challenge was established and we will each be building robots for our own individual competitions that we come up with. Whichever challenge has the robot best suited for it, will be used as the standard for the others as they have to modify their robots to compete in that challenge. We have decided on our challenge and have a plan on the what robot we will attempt too build for it.

Organizing part into their bins