10-30-18

Fiona worked on putting together the SolidWorks model together since we made some adjustments to our robot, we basically rebuilt it. We're slowly working our way on putting the new and improved arms on the robot which means we are closer and closer to completing the challenge.

10-26-18

Mykel came up with a new design for the arms which we agreed that might actually work compared to the last design we had. Fiona's working on soldering (also teaching some people in our class to solder☺) and Melqui is practicing SolidWorks for his certification. Since Melqui's busy, a new addition to our team was made, Monique is now on our team. We plan on moving some other stuff around our robot so we can place the thing responsible for picking up the balls and transferring them to the shooter. 

10-24-18

Mykel and Melqui took apart little parts of our robot so we could fix it. Fiona was working on fixing up some motors so we could use them on our robot, and just everyone in the class could use them. The improvements we're making on our robot are mostly in the arms (to be able to pick up the caps) and in the spacing of its components.

10-17-18

Today Melqui, Mykel, and Nicolle worked on the robot, they fixed some issues with the wheels/motor and the arm and how it's going to pick up the caps. I worked on SolidWorks since today is the last day to get it done and turn it in since the quarter is ending.

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10-11-18

Today is the final day to complete our SolidWorks and challenge before the end of the first quarter. Fiona's adding the final tweaks to the second model of the robot which is designed for the cap challenge, so it consists of the arms and the end of the arm which is actually responsible for picking up the caps. Mykel, Melqui and I are working on adding the very final tweaks on the robot itself.

10-9-18

We're re-positioning the chain's gears to accommodate the wheels on the robot. We're also connecting the arm's two motors to the cortex so we can start programming them. So far, the robot is looking pretty good and we hope to be done with the challenge we need by the end of the quarter. 🔧🔩

10-5-18

We found out that the problem with our arm wasn't because the battery was dead but with how our gears were placed. So today we exchanged the gears we had for our arm with ones that were a different size to change the torque. We also worked on fixing our program and wire placement to be able to move our robot. So far it moves smoothly

10-3-18

Today the main focus was working on programming the arm of our robot. We hit a few bumps on the road when the arm wasn't moving when we tried to control it. We hope that the problem was only dealing with the battery because it wasn't charged and not with the structure of the robot itself.