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.

We finally went for an official run and ended up getting 100 by missing the chance to get 120 by a second! But we were the first group in the period to finish and are now ready for our next challenge!

We finally got the code in and hotbot is seen picking up its first tetrahedron for the win!!!!
The only dilemma we have encountered is a problem with torque and we might have to switch out one of our gears on our design.

Hot bot is coming together very nicely, we already have the arm in place and all we have left is to hook up the motor to the brain, and program it to the controller.

We are actively working and really progressing on our arm idea for hotbot. we've gone through a few ideas and alot of parts but its finally coming together.

here Drew is working hard on hotbot.. what a cutie.

We have a design in mind for our hotbot and as you can see in the photo, theres Nick working hard on how to make our idea a reality!