Monday, October 31, 2016

Monday

The new drive is almost complete. After that, we will be fixing the positioning of our cortex and battery. Currently, the only thing supporting those are some thin, flexible pieces of metal.




Friday, October 28, 2016

Friday

Now we are redesigning the mechanical drive system on our robot as well as the positioning of our cortex and battery.




Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Perfecting

Now that we have completed the star challenge we are now helping other teams as well as slightly modifying our own robot such as changing the positioning of our Vex Cortex and battery.


Monday, October 24, 2016

Complete

Our robot is now complete. We have already done the star challenge on which we got a 104%. At first we got an F but then we realized that if we extended the claw's reach we would be able to lift multiple starts at a time fairly easily. After completing the star-throwing challenge we needed to add a way that would allow the robot to utilize the hanging pole so that in a real competition we could get that extra 12 points. To do this we added a small peg near the base of the grabber so that it could hook itself into the pole.



Monday, October 17, 2016

Monday

Today was a challenging day with our code. As we come to the end of our robot construction we put our finishing touches onto our code. The wires are not working as we had hoped because we need splitters for port 1 and 10. Although this has happened it is not holding us back as we soulder the wires to create our own splitters. We will be victorious in the challenge


Friday, October 14, 2016

Friday

This week was definitely fruitful. The programming was finished, our build is more or less complete, the SolidWorks is looking good, we fixed the torque problem, we relocated the vex cortex and battery, etc. We are finally just about ready to wire everything, make any needed tweaks, and finalize our robot.




Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Wednesday

Today there was no school because of Yom Kippur. Earlier this week the code was fixed so that it actually works. Now we are working on adding more torque to the arm motors. We are doing this by adding an axle with a small gear on it underneath the large arm gear rather than having the motor directly on the arm gear.




Monday, October 10, 2016

Monday

The due date of our SolidWorks and blog has been extended by two days due to hurricane Matthew causing school to be canceled on Thursday and Friday. Bryan is nearly done with the SolidWorks. Good job Bryan. It turned out that Joe made the code too complicated and it did not work very well. Silly Joe. In his defense, this was the first year he learned how to integrate remote control commands into VEX programming. Other than that our only problem is the robot is not strong enough to support its arm. It can lift it but then it starts to fall if left alone. For this reason, we need to add more torque.



Friday, October 7, 2016

Friday

On Friday school was cancelled due to hurricane Matthew causing such a scare. This week we worked on fixing the axle that was restricting the robot's ability to move. We got rid of the center wheel on each side so now we have 4 instead of 6 wheels.


Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Wednesday

All did not go well. We realized that one of the axles in the drive system is skewed and is preventing the robot from being able to drive. Now we are working to fix the robot's wheels since one of the axles prevented the robot from being able to drive.



Monday, October 3, 2016

Monday

Today was Rosh Hashanah so we did not get a chance to work on our robot today. However, when we do get back, we are planning on downloading the program into the robot and testing the entire thing out. If all goes well we will have a complete robot ready for completion.