Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Week 13

5/20/19
Today we caught up on our blogs. For the past few weeks we've been so caught up on our robot that  we haven been doing the bloggers properly so we went back and fixed them. By now we should be up to date. We also plan fixing parts of our robot that just aren't connected properly like collars and screws.
  
5/22/19
Today i'm attempting the tetrahedron challenge even though Mr.Martin isn't here, due to the fact that i think i need to do it today to get the grade, hopefully we can get the autonomous working.

Friday, April 26, 2019

Week 12

4/22/19
Today we started to add the claw because we really need to catch up on challenges since this robot took up our time since we had to rebuild 4 times now. praying the claw goes smoothly so we can just finish this thing.

4/26/19
So after messing with the claw for 2 classes we finally got the robot's claw to work and actually functions. Next class we are going to have to do the tetrahedron challenge if we want any chance of finishing every challenge.

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Week 11

4/22/19
After we got our wheels put on we realized it didn't sound pretty, but with the 4 v5 motors that. thing. flies. No doubt the fastest robot in the room, but can still use much improvement when it comes to the gears grinding and things not tightened.


4/24/19
We are now messing with the coding trying to make the robot do stupid/cool/useless things like say things on its screen and controller screen for no reason... we were bored.

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Week 10

4/15/19
Our 2 motors seem to be having a hard time moving the wheels and we don't know why but we have a few ideas as to why. It's either that the gears aren't tight enough, there's not enough torque in the motors, or that the gears are not secure enough and need extra reinforcements.


4/17/19
We figured out that the problem with our robot is that the motor didn't have enough torque to move all the gears and the wheels. We decided to add 2 extra motors so that each wheel gets its own motor.
                                                                                                   

Friday, April 12, 2019

Week 9


4/78/19-
Last class we never finished putting on the gears so we are getting that done today. After we get that done we plan on attaching it to the the base and seeing if it works.... Praying they actually spin this time.



4/12/19-
Despite what was said last week, the loose gears are causing problems and not all the gears are rotating. We are hopping that  it's just a case of them not being supported properly and we are planning to attach their axle to the frame for more stability.   
                                                              

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Week 8

4/1/19
Today we worked on the new base for our robot. We are using metal pieces that is 25 units long in order to accommodate all the gears we need. We are just gathering all the pieces today and figuring out how we are going to put them on.



4/5/19
Now that we have all the pieces we need, we started to put on the gears. We're having trouble with tightening them but we figured we will trouble shoot that when it gives us a real problem. Our goal is to have the fastest robot in the room.

                          

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Week 7



3/18/19
We decided the big wheels would help us make a bigger and better robot so we are trying to find the best way possible to attach them and get the robot running.
    


3/20/19
We found that to use the bigger wheels we are going to need a different base lay out so instead of working around what we have we will be scrapping the robot and basically just making a new one.
     

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

week 6

3/11/19
Our goals for this week is to continue to modify our robot. We put on two small wheelie bars on the back and have coded the arm of our robot and have added reinforcements to our claw but it seem to be too heavy for the motor too keep up.


3/13/19
Today we a have decided to put on the big boy wheels. We have to make a whole new base to accommodate for the length of the wheels. We also have to add 2 small gear o the front and the back on each side which will give us more speed. This project might take a few days but i will be worth it.

Friday, March 8, 2019

Week 5

3/4/19
        We Have gotten the basis done for our figure 8, but the timing in rotation and moving forward is the tiniest bit off so we have inconsistent runs when it goes to repeat the drive forward actions. we will continue to tweak it till we get it right! 


      


           3/8/19 - We have tweaked the coding alot and have a really good basis for the figure 8. we have had 2 successful figure 8's but it is still a tiny inconsistent so until we get 4 successful runs in a row we will continue to change the coding. 
                                                                          
                                                              

Friday, February 22, 2019

week 4

2/20/19
We continued working on our figure 8. By the end of class we had half of our first figure 8 done coded out. We ran into problem with the robot rotating to much or too little despite what we told it to do.

2/22/19
This figure 8 might be the death of us to be honest... the robot just barely moves to far to the side and since we have to command on repeat the first run has to be nearly perfect for the second one to be.

Friday, February 15, 2019

Week 3

2/11/18 We went to our stations and familiarized our selves with the software and cortex for the v5.
   



2/15/18 We started finding and collecting all of our robots parts, then started building the base of our claw bot.
      

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Week 2


2/5/19 We chose the v5 claw bot for the challenge. We also cleaned out our work space so should be ready to work once we get the base of our bot done in solid works.

    

2/7/19 We Finished the Solid works drawing of the base for the v5 clawbot so we can start building.

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Week 1

2/5/29 -
          The goals for the week are to write bio pages for all the group members, make sure all our robot parts are away, inventory/organize our tool box, pick our robot "style", and make the virtual design of the robot on solid works.







      




2/719
We started to do the solid work and are searching for the pieces for the claw bot.                 





















Week 13

5/20/19 Today we caught up on our blogs. For the past few weeks we've been so caught up on our robot that  we haven been doing the blog...