Team Field Elements: (⅝ finished)
- Rough terrain: On sat we finished rough terrain (put screws in the bottom up) ⇒ DONE
- Sally Port: Put an angle brace ⇒ Needs surgical hose on it to make it shut
- Port Cullis: Bought material today
- Rock Wall: DONE
- Ramparts: made parts, need to installed on platform
- Moat: DONE
- Cheval de Frise: DONE
- Drawbridge: Bought material
- Low bar: Need to get materials? Do we need materials?
- Climbing Wall: Bought materials, needs painting
EVERYTHING NEEDS PAINTING (please use a tarp/set up painting area indoors ⇒ talk to Mr. Wells)
Team Scissor Jack:
- Today: Assembled parts
- Tomorrow: Needs collar, bearing, and nut on one side. Finish assembling the prototype, and TEST
Team Lathe:
- Today: Making axles for 1st drive train, cut all, drilled holes in some, and tapped some (w/ Mr. Klem & Mr. Wells)
- Tomorrow: finish drilling & tapping, will become the steerable front & rear axles (someone talk to Mr. Wells!!)
Team Catapult
- Today: adjusted the tension of surgical hose, cut in half to fit into robot, testing how it shoots (base height: 11 in, point of release: 15 in, hit the ceiling of basement). worked with Mr. Truman
- Tomorrow: try to design a better catch-mitt/cradle area so that the ball flies in a nicer arc (we want to figure out how to get a 30˚ arc)
- Fiberglass application? Hook on the catapult too?
Team Programming:
- Today: mount for the camera is FINISHED. Have a gimble
- Tomorrow: need to program vision stuff. trying to recognize target & use algorithm to hit target better. Lights!
- Need to coordinate with catapult team
List of motors on outer IDEA Paint wall
14 motors in theory for current design
need to figure out a way to combine mechanisms
****We want someone ball-catcher/dozer blade****
(keep goals in mind)
Ed’s design for spinning ball gathering device (talk to Mr. Wells)
Goals
By the end of next weekend, WORKING DRIVETRAIN