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

More building arm things

We ditched the scoop technique and went for an arm instead. Just need to secure it to the bot and we should be good. It was interesting trying to make the arm work, and to just build it.

Wednesday's arm building

(Yeah we are getting buff) but we finally got a prototype-ish arm done. Just for bucky balls though, as it seems. But it seems stable for now...
And there are some preliminary ideas in the pics as well

Some late robo stuff

Kinda forgot to post this earlier , but here are some pics of what we did Monday.

9-16-13

Today we programmed our robot to move forward and backward. We found a problem with the wheels but quickly changed the front ones out with smaller ones. Now we need to figure out how to make working arms that can pick up the balls and move them around.

Robo build and programming

All we did today was built the two sides if the robot. Then we got to programming and things. Played around with the robot too

Robot building and chassis

Just some robot building type stuff.

09-11-13

Today we started construction on our robot. The only potential sources of error we see are that the wheels may be too big. We got the two halves of the chassis completed, Friday we plan to attach the two halves and begin to learn how to program the robot to move.