Throughout the week, plates were attached to the autonomous beacon attachment to increase the likelihood of pressing the beacon. The servos for the claw mechanism were originally the 180 degree ones, but these didn’t have enough range for the claws
11/5/16 Hardware
Harvester: Finished prototype with duct tape attached to one set of wheels. Final attachment to build this week: -Keep base design -Replace wheels with gears and tapes with treads Shooter: After 200 or so shots the poly carbonate piece
11/5/16 CAD
Windchill Update Situation- As of now, I can only say that Windchill Update is just not very stable. As I have been searching across the PTC forum, and most people say that Windchill Update does not work correctly. New system
11/5/16 Software
We programmed the other side of the autonomous navigation today. Brandon didn’t put in some essential instructions on connecting the adb, so Samuel put it in in the previous engineering notebook entry that contained that post. The blue side of
10/29/16 Software
On the competition robot, we programmed the autonomous to start against the wall and drive back and push the first beacon. The robot starts between the two beacons and drive backwards using the wheels on the side until the light
10/29/16 Hardware
Cap ball update: The robot will first go through with the claw design inside of the ring design, because it is easier to hook onto the cap ball and overall less complicated. There will be servos attached to gears
10/29/16 CAD
Yellow – Chassis White – Auto Beacon Blue – Intake Red- Shooter Green – Cap ball Brown – Tele Beacon This is our new system envelope from the 10/29 meeting. Current Cad Development- The
10/22/16 CAD
Robot Design Table- Someone will have to color it or update according to Patrick. Yellow – Chassis White – Auto Beacon Blue – Intake Red- Shooter Green – Cat ball Brown – Tele Beacon
10/22/16 Software
Patrick mounted the light sensor on the robot, but there was a compilation error in Android Studio about having multiple dex files for Vuforia that prevented us from downloading anything to the robot. It might be because of the recent
10/22/16 Hardware
Robot design overview: Shooter: The shooter is much stronger as it uses poly carbonate rather than the inflexible acrylic. This shooter yeilded results of 3/5 in its first testing but can be raised with some minor changes. This