Tournament day

We did well, 17th place, and are hoping to get higher than that next time.

Maximum overdrive

So we kinda changed stuff from the competition, we made it go really fast, we just need the arms back on and we should be golden. And of course making the arms stable...

New things!

Had to restart, got a nice catching system going. So thats good. Yep, and we need to build the chassis to fit around it and lift it up...

11-25-13

Today we  finished our new chassy, for our old one didn't really work.We used mechana wheels instead of large wheels. These wheels work much better because they can travel in any direction. We  have a competition on the 7th of December and we have to be ready for that soon. We have an arm idea that includes a trapping mechanism to catch the buckyballs and then the arm extends out and puts it in the goal. We only have 2 small problems; something's wrong with the arm extender, and we havent put the arm on yet either.

arm carrying  buckyball

finished chassy

if you look in the back, you can see me typing this post.

overall view of our workarea

Arm things

So we got a new arm and geared the crud out of it, and aren't done yet. So all we need to do is basically finish the arm and motorize it, then get the scoop part. Maybe get it plastic, it depends.

9-25-13

Today we decide to start getting the arm attached and motorized. It didn't work very well because te arm was too heavy. Next class we are going to work on making the arm lighter

Arm pics

Words to come later