Posts in Practice

Our Gratuitous coach has done it again. Providing Countless resources for the T-Shirt Cannon Robot free of cost. So today we took some inventory or[…]

All go for the T-shirt cannon robot. Brainstorming time! New member added: Tanner Noble. ~ Attendance: Preston, Eric, Gavin, Tanner, Jordan.

Prepped the robot Saturday’s Lego Brickmaster event.

Debrief: Cons: Pros:

Driver meeting. We practiced with the robot, finding and fixing several issues: We replaced two servos that the wires came out of. We improved our[…]

We fixed the horizontal arm mechanism, which was slipping. After that, we drove the robot around and troubleshot issues with the hand servo. Kyle and[…]

Attendence: Preston, Gavin, Nicholas, Marcus Duff Finished attaching supported DC motors for horizontal arm. Found out that the slider in the arm came loose so[…]

The team worked on strengthening the robot’s chassis and motors. Attendence: Preston, Nick, Jordan, Kyle, Carter, Stephen, Gavin Finished strengthening horizontal arm and reinforcing Both[…]

We drove the robot and looked at problems that were occurring. We fixed them by switching to a pulley system for the horizontal arm. After[…]

Gavin worked on designing a new wheel-driven specimen grabber. Jordan worked on putting a DC motor on the existing claw to make it more stable.[…]

Demonstrated robot to WACO Board of Directors and Collins Aerospace. Went over FTC game rules, how the robot was built and answered general questions about[…]

First test drive of the robot with full functionality.

We fixed some issues in coding, making the robot easier to handle during competition. For example, we switched our claw assembly to a locked position[…]

Documentation lost track of who did what. We did the following:

Robot was tested. Everything works, but not well. Michael finalized the coding for the robot, mainly running into issues with servos. Eric, Gavin, and Jordan[…]

Michael coded the brush and vertical basket. Eric, Jordan, and Nick fixed and lubricated the vertical system. Preston continued with documentation.

Jordan worked on the basket to lift specimens. Eric worked on stabilizing the horizontal arm. Gavin added mechanical stops to the horizontal arm and worked[…]

Nick and Eric worked on attaching the Horizontal Arm to the robot. Preston worked on a bracket to stabilize a component of the vertical arm,[…]

Gavin worked on troubleshooting issues with the vertical arm. Eric worked on fixing the horizontal arm and getting it ready for installation. Nick and Jordan[…]