Author: Nick Dahlen

Today saw another outstanding meeting, and as we progress toward the competition, we’re going to need as many of those as we can get. The build team added panels to the sides of the robot, which will function as walls, to protect the more delicate parts of the robot from harm, set up the pneumatic…

Today we saw multiple of our projects come to fruition. For instance, the build team, who, in addition to getting the lift bar ready for mounting (a substantial milestone in and of itself; soon we’ll be able to mount it on the robot proper), and finished the hopper mechanism in its entirety. With it we’ll…

The build team fixed the hopper design; we put in a barrier, so the balls no longer get clogged, and consistently go into the launcher one at a time. With the hopper almost complete, we’re also working on finishing the lift mechanism. The pneumatic pistons are finished and secured to the robot, and the mounting…

The build team mounted the motors for the hopper mechanism, to the point that it can actually launch the dodge balls, and received the lift apparatus, meaning we can finally get to work on implementing it. We’re currently working on a way to store the balls, and prepare them to launch without them getting stuck…

Yet another steady day at the maker space; the build team continued to assemble the hopper system, adding more bolts to stabilize the hopper mechanism, which will be launching the power cells, and started to actually build the hook mechanism. Meanwhile, the programming team finished setting up the cameras, got the robot to move itself…

We had another day of steady work today at the maker space. The build team has continued to work overtime to get back on schedule for competition, building the walls on the ball launcher system, and finishing the mounting for the pneumatic pistons. Once we finish with these systems, we’ll finish the lifting arm, (which…

We had one of our most productive meetings to date today, with all of our teams making significant progress towards their goals. The build team added several supports to the structure, and mounted the first two of four pneumatic pistons to the bottom of the robot. These pistons will extend to allow the robot to…

Today there was quite a lot that needed to be done in order to stay on schedule. For the business team, they have been working on the Chairmen’s essay and animation for the Chairmen’s presentation. Once the final tweaks have been made on the essay, we can start practicing our presentation. Both projects will be…

Today was another productive meeting in the maker space; the build team was able to put up the frame on the robot, and, after solving an issue with the measurements on lifting mechanism not making sense in relation to the rest of the robot (a challenge overcome by a few hasty calls to the shipyard…

We had our longest meeting to date today; we had finals today (giving us a half day for school) but had a day off tomorrow (meaning nobody would be busy studying) and as a result we’ve got a whopping six hours of work time. The build team spent this extended operating time working on the…