- External Affairs
- New Sweatshirt survey! Giving us EMC sweatshirts (complementary)
- Handed in essays & video is done
2. Catapult
- (Roche) built, shoots high enough
- little jitty, need to reenforce
- (Roche) DOGBOX (w/ two speed transmission gear) IS HERE (need to figure out space claims)
- try to run it with software
3. Chassis/Drive Train
- (Niki) Deattached & attached the left wheel (moved kingpin forward 1 hole), all wheels are DONE
- (Thayer & Ed) Breadbox was 1 in too wide, cut off sides, but DONE
- Still need to blow off blue parts of gear boxes (for Rough Terrain)
- (Wells) Steering Box – have 3 diff designs considering: drag-link, Bowditch, capstan
- difficulty – space claims & rod angles
- pillars and gussets need to welded in
- some part of the frame need to re-welded
4. Ball Picker Upper (BPU)
- cut out middle part of front frame
- cut 2 in tubing for rollers (being assembled)
- need to do math about motors and stuff (use spread sheet on team drive)
- need to figure out mounting method
5. Winch
- working on new tensioner
- starting to think of how to mount the motor
- will require a mini-CIM (4 CIMs for wheels, 1 CIM for catapult, and 1 CIM for winch ==> DONE)
6. Fly Wheel
- Worked on pieces that hold up gears
- Need to screw in pieces, need to cut some pieces to adjust to bearing
- Done by Friday
7. Second Bot
- Have all the parts needed
- Holes need to be drilled in axle plates
- Need to welded together
- Make some plywood templates to get 90 degree angles
- Gearboxes – 1 done, 3 to go
- Wheels – needed the right bolts. Found hubs
- Let’s count heim joints (if we need to order more)
8. Field Elements
- reinforced all the field elements broken from testing w/ more screws!
9. Software
- tried to set up arcade drive. figured out buttons
- figuring out how to send JPanel to drive station (visualization of robot’s location on field)
- waiting on drive train & steering box