Thursday, February 17, 2011

Team Update: February 17, 2011

Hi everyone!

Safety Contact: When moving field equipment, take your time and be careful about your actions and surroundings.

Issa: made shark and template for bumpers.

Electrical: cleaned up wires and will continue to tomorrow.

Minibot: the minibot was modified with two motors. Appropriate fittings were made to run the minibot by itself. The minibot ran up the pole in 3.7 seconds today. There was a plan to make a gearing system to have it run in 1.8 seconds. The deployment system is ready to use with a pole release system. The total time will be around 2 seconds total.

Programming: software updates, reimaged the cRio, tested autonomous, and finalized the mounting of sensors and camera.

The robot has been painted! Our robot is named Sam Shark this year, so we designed our robot to look like a shark. We modeled Sam Shark off of the Whale Shark, however we modified it to fit our ideas. The robot is all blue. Here is a preview of what we have done:

 The claw has teeth! The red is to accent the white teeth and make sure it is seen from the stands.
The Whale Shark has dots on it...so we accented our robot with yellow dots to match our shirt.

Our next meeting is tomorrow from 9am til 9pm. Thanks Mrs. Cardona for dinner tonight. Tomorrow Mrs. Rodriguez is providing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Crunch weekend has officially begun! 5 more days until ship!
-Sam

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