9-27-18

Today Mykel and Melqui decided that they wanted to fix some stuff on our robot and Fiona and I helped. Anthony came over to our table for "moral support." 😂 Overall, we're doing some good progress and hopefully, by next class, we'll be closer and closer to completing the challenge.

9-25-18

We're working on placing the arm on our robot and we're making some minor adjustments by changing up the way we're going to get our robot to pick up the balls. Instead of having two large gears with rubber bands, the large "picker upper," we're going to use two smaller ones. The reason we're doing this is because we realize that we don't have too much space and we need it in order to connect the picker upper with the part that is gonna be attached to the shooter. The boys want to figure that part out while Fiona and I work on building and bettering the bottom parts for the arms of the robot.

9-21-18

We came up with an idea for our arm and tried to incorporate it into our robot. We worked more on our robot's ability to pick up the balls as well as where we were gonna place it on our robot. 

9-18-18

Today we were all trying to figure out how exactly we were going to place the "claw" on our robot and how we were going to get it to work. We visualized where exactly on the robot we're gonna place the rails that will serve as its arms, as well as how we're going to get Mykel's idea of a scissor lift assembly to work in order to be able to lift up and flip the caps easily. We also came up with some idea as to how many two wire motors we're going to need in order for the claw and arms to function properly.

9-14-18

Fiona and I started to make the "claw" for our robot so we could pick up the caps. We tried different designs until we found one that we liked and worked for us. Mykel and Melqui worked more on modifying the structure of how to pick up the balls on the arena for the challenge that follows.

9-12-18

Fiona worked on the rest of our solidworks robot. Like shown above we have the front, right, top, and isometric views of our finished robot. Now we have to update it to match our physical robot. Mykel, me, and Melqui worked more on finding a way to implement the all shooter. 

9-7-18

We had some difficulties with our SolidWorks model, to where we had to begin the process over again. We're working on finishing the virtual robot so we can turn it in. Mykel is working on the design for an arm so we can complete the cap flipping challenge.

9-5-18

Today we worked on trying to put together our shooter as well as fixing any misplacement of the motors for the "ball scooper" that Mykel created. We're still trying to figure out how exactly we'll place the shooter on the robot as we're also trying to figure out how we are going to get it to work. Fiona helped me make any changed on the shooter that could make it shoot the ball in a smoother way.