During the prototyping process, our mechanics team tested and decided against suction cups because while it lifted up hatch panels in a functionable way, it couldn’t pick up the cargo, so we went with a velcro design instead. This was designed by our CAD team. Since then, our mechanics team finished our electrical board and mounted it onto the chassis. They’re also making the claw to pick up the hatch panels and cargo for our big arm. Our CAD team assembled the RoboJack, which is a scissor lift used to lift up the robot on to Hab level 3. They also designed the claw in an effort to get the velcro piece working and connected to the big arm. Our Chairman’s team continued to work on the essay and make more progress to the video. They also worked on the presentation for our annual Sponsor Night, hosted on February 18th.
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Today was the beginning of build season . The race is on, time to plan and bring our ideas to life and begin prototyping. First we came up with the idea of suction cups to be able to pick up the cargo in Destination Deep Space then began prototyping with suction cups of various sizes,shapes,and materials. After a failed attempt to find a suction cup that would be able to grasp on to the cargo we are now putting our focus on a wheel intake system . We started the research process to be able to raise/lift our robot to hab level three (13in from the ramp or 1ft1in from level 2). The CAD/Programming team is beginning to digitally build drivetrains to determine whether we will use a 8-wheeled drive or a 6-wheeled drive system and determine what will be more beneficial for out robot in the game. Today, we celebrated the official 2019 kickoff event! After watching the live feed to find out what game we’d be playing for the year, we read through a couple sections of the game manual, and played a human game, where team members pretended to be the robots. For the Sandstorm period, each “robot” closed their eyes. For each match we had, the rules changed for different strategies to use. Overall, it was a very exciting day for our team! All of us are very pumped for build season and couldn’t do it without our very helpful mentors, sponsors, and coaches. |
