End of the week fun times

We finally gathered all the supplies to create the tetrahedron and finished the arm on top of the robot. Jake also has finished the solid works work and Darien is perfecting the coding so the robot can be controlled easily with the controller.

                                                              ~party tetrahedron~

~final touch up~

solid works

~isometric~

~front~

~right~

~top~

Yallready know its Monday Funday

Today were are going to try and finally finish building our Robot arm. Me, Jeremy, Darien and Malik are working our best to finish the arm. Jake has made a lot of progress on the solid works design and should be done by the end of the week if everything goes according to plan.
                                                                     

  ~Jeremy trying to finish the arm~

~Straws ft. Spouncer~

End of the Week

This week was a short one, with a early release Thursday, and no school Friday. However, i happened to make a lot of progress regarding SolidWorks. Also nick has got the straws to make our tetrahedron, and Jeremy, Malik and Darien work on the arm for our robot.

~almost done~

~Jeremy working on the arm~ 

Monday funday

Since we made it around the chairs on Thursday, we have started to build the arm for our Robot. Since we already doing the square-bot robot we are just going to make a simple arm that can be used to pick up the straws and put them on the pipes. Jake is still working on putting the robot together in solid works. We hope to have most of the arm built by the end of the quarter on Thursday.

                                          Jeremy trying to find the right screws for the arm

                                                           Jake working on solid-works

SUCCESS

our robot made it around the chairs!!! Darien is very happy, however there is no time to celebrate. Now we must move on to the next challenge, lifting the tetrahedron off the rack. First we must decide how we are going to do that. Also we have to go to a fast food restaurant to get straws to build one. The solid works is coming along nicely on my end.

~starting motor assembly~

~our next challenge~

new week same problems

Darien and I are the only ones here today so it was a slow day work wise. I continued on the SolidWorks, while Darien continues to troubleshoot our coding problems. Darien believes he is close to a break through. Hopefully by the end of the week are robot can go around the chairs with ease.

~outer chassis rail~

~Darien putting in work~

End of the Week

Our week was an interesting one. We have made progress in getting the robot to go around the chairs. I feel we will havwe this done by the end of today or Monday. Since Darien has been tasked with this, I have spent last few days download parts for the robot in SolidWorks and began assembling. However, I feel we ,ay be falling behind slightly, as one of the groups has already moved on to the next stage.

~Start of chassis~

~Darien Adjusting Robot~

This gosh darned Robot - Weekly Goal

Coding this thing has proved to be harder than we thought. I thought it would be a situation where i write the code and put it on the flash drive, but there's a whole process, and the robot just runs the code randomly and starts moving on its own, so it's hard to predict what's going to happen. Either way we're still trudging on.

- Jeremy trying to figure out the mechanics -

- Malik figuring out the controller -

End of Week

We found motors that work, now we Darien is on trying to get the code up and running. However, we are running into some troubles the computer doesn't always register that the brain is plugged into it. So right now we are figuring out what computer will work. Right now the robot just spins in circles.