Catapult Design
- Started making it out of aluminum
- Cut out pieces of long square pieces of aluminum to support it to keep a certain distance for the ball
- Mr. Roche helped drill in two bearings to act like an axis
- Catapult version 2.0
- Fits better on the robot
- Flywheel
- Make a decision: Have to let it be tested out on both sides
- Test Prototypes before making a final decision
- WORK ON DRIVE TRAIN THIS WEEK
Defense Painting
- Everything is done
- Sweatshirt: Got some designs, in the process
Defense Building (Port Culis)
- Done
- Lowbar: done
Chasis
- Started doing brackets that go on the outside of the gear boxes
- Punching holes for the kingpins
- Should be good by tomorrow
- Plywood Bumpers: Done by tomorrow
- Brackets: Should be done by mid practice tomorrow, punch holes and drill
- Then can start putting it together
Programming
- Made a sweeping function
- Adding a potentiometer
Flywheel
- Took apart the frame
- Making the flywheel smaller and more compact
- Offsetting it on the gimbal to fold it down into the robot
Climber
- Need to know the catapult design first
- Work on mechanics of it
- Needs material or an idea of it
- Start thinking about adding an onboard compass
Anything Else
- Pick up tools and clean your area before you leave
- Tomorrow: Lots of people start working on the drive train (Get it done) to start testing and everything
- Get dimensions for bungee picker upper to start programming
- Someone can start working on the drive train right away
- Mixing up a worm motor and gear motor (on the conveyer belt on last years robot)
- Activate together, can’t be back driven and is very strong
- Might also want that for the wench
- Drive Train
- Order more 50 – 52 alloy aluminum (Put order in tonight)