Friday

Today we started to build a lift that will carry the ball to the launcher. Its a metal lift similar to nicks group that will move the ball to the launcher using tank tread. Also we added wheels to the motors of the launcher that will carry the ball to the wheels that launch the ball. The only problem is attaching this to the robot.

enemy has spotted us

We scouted the opponents robot performance but saw us and start to shoo us away. Meanwhile our robot performance has been doing so well that it can shoot from the 20 points zone which allows us to shot 5 balls to get a 100 the only problem is the transfer the ball to shotter. 

Stress

Today are group is stressing because of the fact that we need to be done by next week. we fixed the gearing issue so now we have a medium gear connected to a large gear so now when we tested the gear with the motor even though its a little slower than before it requires less torque to move the gears. Now we have to attach the launcher to the robot and test it with a wiffle ball.

Design Flaw

Today the worst happened, we found out that the launcher Michael was working on had a design flaw. The gears were preventing the ball from reaching the launcher. In order to fix the issue we took apart the gears and began to put the gears on the top of the launcher instead of inside.

 

The Mount

We are mounting the shooter on the robot. Knowing that we have only 8 days until the competition we are hoping to beat all other teams. Solidworks has been on hold because our main focus is to finish up the robot.