Finished Robot Trailer (Awaiting Deployment)

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Competition Bot

Scrimmage was a success. After some finishing touches, we bagged the bot last night. The media team is currently in the process of compiling a video of the bot!

Finally, an update

It has been a very busy two weeks and we have been working tirelessly to get through small problems holding us up. First it was the gripper plates, then the first lift was binding due to tube straightness issues, then a set of arm gears stripped out due to some bad code. We have also been waiting on gears for almost 3 weeks now to set up the two speed drive. Today they finally came in, and the wait was sure worth it. they work beautifully. Tomorrow, we hope to get the transmissions mounted to the drive and get in the first real practice of the season. The lift and arm are together and shoot up to top scoring position in about 1.8 seconds. The newly designed gripper grabs tubes almost flawlessly. I will post a video tomorrow showing all our progress. Deployment is coming along and we are excited to be functional at scrimmage this Saturday and Sunday at Kimberly Clark. All the hard work from all the students and mentors is finally paying off!!!

Week of Sucesses

The shop has been full of bust workers all week. Tomorrow, we should have the lift working (pending the arrival of sprockets), as well as the arm and the claw. We expect gears by Friday. We expect this weekend to be full of testing. Our minibot currently flies up in 1.6 seconds! We hope to increase this time by about .1 or .2. This weekend should be the most exciting in a long time. Compared to previous seasons, its amazing we might have some practice time.