Back To Work

Today we're going back to robots after four days off. Now we're going to focus on fixing our scissor lift to try to get more points on the previous challenge if possible. If not we will be better prepared for the next challenge anyways. After a much needed break we're ready to get back to it. Jimmy is especially eager.

Starstruck & SolidWorks

Our Starstruck challenge bot v.2 is nearly ready. If we only had like 20 minutes we could completely finish everything and get over 100% for a grade. We're soooo close!!!!! Below is our solid works robot robot that we have a 0 in on pinnacle but that will soon change once our blogs are graded again

Wrapping Up the Week

We are finishing everything we need and we'll be posting our SolidWorks until it's done. Most likely this blog will be posted early due to our due date being in the middle of the week. This is our last blog for week 12 as we practice for AutoCAD certification within the month and continue on robotics.

Finallizing End Effector

Today we finished our idea on how we're going to build our end effector. We strive to do an official by the end of the week before our due date. As we build we'll be working on Solidworks as much as we can.

End Effector & Drive Control

 

Today we're focusing on our end effector and drive control. So far with the scissor lift our robot can knock stars over to the other side with ease, we plan to add more to it if possible. As we focus on our drive control we notice that in the ring it has a problem moving around except when moving backgrounds so we're going to fix that. 

Operation Scissor Lift

We started building our scissor lift and its coming out very productive. We have attached rubber bands for the gearing and suspension. Our robot has been programmed but the only problem is the drive control so we have to fix it.

Gmetrix & Robotics

We're continuing to work on our robot after taking some time off to do Gmetrix. We're going for a scissor-lift sort of design and we've already installed one side, all that's left is to install another one on the right side and add two more scissor lifts on top of those. then we will just have to add our end effector.