Finally got out code working, time to start testing it out with our team driver, Moshe Grosso. Also we helped another team get the autonomous off of their robot.

This week we have made substantial progress on constructing the "hot bot".  We have finished our endofactor and compound gear system.  This way the arm has enough torque to lift u the heavy "hand".

This week we hope to finish building our robot for the racquetball challenge.  We need to completely replace our arm with a new one with a stronger "elbow" joint and a new "hand" that can pick up and drop the racquetball.

This week we have been relocated into a portable.  Since we couldn't make much progress on the "hot bot", we have basically no updates to update.  We can however tell you that we did a current event while in the portables.

We have all agreed upon a modified scoop design for our challenge.  In order to support such a heavy endofactor, we are going to increase the power our arm joint has by changing the gears around.  We believe that the sacrifice in speed will be worth it with our endofactor design.  Also, this week we are being relocated into a portable for the super testing.

So far this week we have mainly been coming up with ideas for our latest challenge.  There are many ways to go about placing the rubber ball into the pvc pipe but we are leaning towards a scoop design.  Any attempts at getting help from other students who took our class last year have been futile as they had a slightly different challenge.

We have learned that our next challenge involves a big pvc pipe and a rubber bouncy ball.  Our challenge is to place the ball into the pvc pipe and different pipes are woth different points.  Also, we are timed.