August 27, 2011 Practice

Here is the gear system on
the ball collector.

Today we reconstructed the ball contraption for the robot. Ian and I added gear systems to boost the speed of a wheel to roll the balls. Next week we are considering upgrading some of the gears to chains and adding more wheels to actually shoot the balls into the container.

We finally made a reliable NXT
mound!

On the other hand. I finally made a stable and accessible NXT mount. It also provides easy access to the NXT brick itself. We also moved some components to make room for our new addition of an improved ball collector.


Today was very productive and we are planning on adding on and possibly completing the ball collection device on our next meeting. We also anticipate the release of the actual challenge, on September 10th. I was very impressed by how productive today's meeting was.