- What did I do today?
- What will I do tomorrow?
- What’s standing in my way?
Mecanum Wheels (Cornell & Co)
- Today
- Constructing them now… a long and arduous process.
- Planning
- Finish constructing them
- Loc-tite the bolts BEFORE they go on the robot!
Frog Tongue (Roche)
- Today
- Have brackets and about 80% mounted
- Looking for springs and a setup
- Have a power board
- Planning
- Identify the “right” springs
- Test run with RoboRIO tomorrow (try to pull a box)
Sensors (Wu)
- Today
- Working out of the box!
- Analog ultrasonic sensor… trying to figure out the scale
- Not quite sure how to sample the voltage (it has some weird offsets)
- No ping cable now!
- Planning
- Carry on with the sensor
Can Grabber (Helynna, Jason, Gillian)
- Today
- Built a prototype can grabber
- Can pick up. And drop. Yay!
- Long arguments about grabber vs. hook
- Hook is currently printing (Stanton!)
- Planning
- Test the hook
- Explore the idea of “can rails” to track cans up to the top
- Have roller-coaster detentes to keep cans on the tracks
CAD (Stanton)
- Today
- Almost all of KOP is converted
- Can prototype in CAD! Yay!
- Planning
- Come learn CAD with Niles!
- N.B. All of the KOP parts have weights so we can compute centers of mass!
Drive Train (Kuperstein et al)
- Today
- Working on constructing chassis
- Concerns about fitting the 2.919″ thick 8″ mecanum wheels between the inner and outer chassis
- Planning
- Working on reenforcing the chassis, adjusting for big wheels
Dean’s List Essays (Yang)
- Today
- Can’t nominate a senior for the Dean’s List
- Need to identify two sophomores and/or juniors to nominate
- 4000 words per essay (Cynthia and Jane are working on them).
- Planning
- Write, write, write
- Starting to work on Chairman’s Awards
- Starting to work on the video with Wendy
And we picked up our tools today! Let’s do that every day.