Guess Who

Guys this is a special moment our very own Nicholas Schwab is actually in contact with the robot rather than his usual position in front of the computer screen. Nick is the mastermind behind the solidworks build of the robot but its nice to see him working in a different environment. That's what this team is capable to do and makes its a good team. Everyone can evenly distribute work in every field of the build.

New Shooter

Today we ran into a problem with our shooter. We fixed the issue of the elevator, but now the elevator goes up and hits the gears on our shooter. Today we are working on raising the gears of the shooter, and changing the design of  the shooter a little bit.

Fresh Start

Today we had to take apart some of our robot because we were running into a few problems, the elevator for our robot was very stiff, it would go up but not back down. So we are working on fixing this issue, we are reconstruction our elevator with different materials.

The angle of the shooter

Today we added a gear on both sides of the robot and the shooter, this gear is used to angle our shooter up and down, giving us a better advantage over shooting the ball in certain circumstances (also it looks cool). Also we are continuing to stay up to date on our solidworks robot, which is at the same stage as our real robot. Keeping everything on the same page makes it very easy to make changes and to add and subtract things we both need and don't need.

Elevator

Today we added a stabilizer to our elevator, it was very loose and weak before, but now that there is a lift on each side it is very stable. Also we finished coding, and building our launcher. We had to fix the gear ratio to make it shoot faster, and be more effective. 

Making Changes

Today we put more supports on our elevator system so it is not wobbly and unstable.Also we are modifying our whole robot because it exceeded the 18 inch rule, We are changing a few pieces out for some smaller pieces that are just as effective, and follow the 18 inch rule.

The Shooter

Today we started to build the shooter in solid works, also we finished coding our PIC remote. We will be using PIC to control half of our robot, and vex for the other half. This makes for smoother operation, and less things for the driver to do at once.