Thursday, February 7

Today, the mechanical team worked on the intake system, installed rollers and attached the poly cord.  They also continued working on the CAD design for the climbing mechanism.  We are trying to have the whole robot completed by Saturday.  The final construction has begun!

The electrical team continued to work on modifying the old program.  We were mostly trying to get the tank drive to work on the simulator, but had some trouble with the directions of the motors.  After hours of switching axis and polarity to different combinations, the robot still spun in circles when we told it to go forward and vice[-versa.  We think it could be a problem with the simulator.

Wednesday, February 6th

Today, the mechanical team worked on the intake, shooter and the arm. On the intake, the rollers were being added. Time was also spent on sauteing tubing together for the intake. On the shooter, we are adding chains. The arm was being worked on in CAD and is still in progress. The electrical team was fixing some errors in the program, working some things out. The main website is also being played around with, a slide show added on the homepage of the main website with some pictures to make it look more attractive. Some people started looking at other team's websites and comparing it to the main website to see what should be added.

Tuesday, February 5

Today, the mechanical team worked on finishing the rollers for the conveyor belt, and installing the intake rollers.  ZJ also went up to Sacred Hearts Academy for a while to mill out the shafts for the shooter.  The CAD design for the climber is currently being worked on.

The electrical team was also successful with programming the potentiometer to show angle instead of voltage.  We did this by simply multiplying the voltage by 50. We also tidied up our area-- it was pretty messy before.  Now we finally have space to work! Then we started trying to correctly calibrate the camera, but it was too dark so we decided to do that some other time when we have access to the gym.  Our goal for the next few days is to look over the previous programs and try to figure them out and put them together to make the final program for the robot.

Monday, February 4

Today, the mechanical team started making PVC rollers for the intake and the conveyor.  They also worked on making the CAD design for the climber.

The electrical team was finally able to successfully program the potentiometer to display the voltage on the front panel! Now we are figuring out how to convert the voltage into an angle so that it can be used for the shooter.

Saturday- February 2

Today in robotics, the mechanical team went off to U.H. to weld the shooter together.  We didn't see them much... but hopefully it came out great!

Meanwhile back in the pretty-much-empty garage, the electrical team had their own business to do.  We worked together to figure out the best way to put all of the electrical components onto the pieces of PVC that we were given to work with, and we were successful with it.  We also started cutting, stripping, and crimping wires for the fans on the talons.

Friday, February 1

Today, the mechanical team started learning how to use pneumatics. They also started making holes in polycarb for the shooter, cutting more metal for the shooter and started preparing the robot for welding.

The electrical/programming team did more research today on programming the potentiometer and analog inputs. Later on, they started trying to use the potentiometer on the practice bot. More work was done on the website, attempting to fix the image on the main website and editing the calendar.

Thursday, January 31

Today, the mechanical team worked on finalizing the CAD design for the shooter and trying to finish cutting the metal parts for it so that it can be welded together on Saturday.

The electrical and programming team spent most of the time discussing ways to arrange the electrical components on the space that we were given. We will shortly be starting to try and program a VEX potentiometer using LabView.

*Please note that the date and time stated above is way off...