Build Season

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.