Saturday, January 14th

Programming:

• Made some new code for the robot
• Got the autonomous code to drive straight
• Can now control the robot

Game field:

• Continued building end cone ramp
• Worked on middle cone ramps and box

Spirit:

• Completed 14 hair ties/scrunchies for 4th grade exploration day

Design:

• Worked on catapult mechanism
• Worked on a prototype cone and cube intake with a dropping mechanism
• The rubber claw idea has been left behind

Friday, January 13th

P.R.:

• Finished editing the kickoff video
• Calendar updates
• Took more pictures and videos
• Started working on week 2 video
• Finished the kickoff video (found below)

Game Field:

• Cleaning and moving woodshop stuff around

Design:

• Working on extendo arm prototype
• Working on roller based intake
• Gear box is in development
• Successfully dropped the cones with human assistance and without human assistance (found below)

Spirit:

• Made 5 hairties

Thursday, January 12th

P.R.:

• Finished making the calendar
• Took more pictures and video

Game Field:

• Finished organizing instruction paper
• Cut several more pieces of wood
• Preparing to build the other parts of the charging station for the cone pieces

Design:

• Even more prototyping for the intake
• Tested some designs
• The main focus right now is working with the cones
• Cut wood for claw, with the idea of using a rubber material for grip

 

Wednesday, January 11th

Game Field:

• Finished vertical and horizontal cone ramps
• Started to construct the diagonal beam
• Made and added the poles for cone pieces

Design/Strategy:

• Discussed and designed 2 prototypes for the cone piece intake

Tuesday, January 10th

Game Field:

• Worked on the charging station,  as well as added pivot mounts
• Built more cube shelfs, mapped and discussed dimensions as well as general preparation 
• Labeling and organizing for game field
• Started to build the cone ramp 

Design:

• Brainstorming ideas for picking up pieces
• Deciding on an arm idea of picking up pieces from the top

Strategy:

• Strategizing tactics for arm use
• Working on a way to pick up and hold the cube piece