November 28, 2011 Meeting

Today Jaret worked on the programming for the arm.He made good progress with that. Jared worked on fixing the kinks on the robot. Tyler started programming for the autonomous mode. He is making 2 programs, one for if we are the red team and one for if we are on the blue team. Today ian worked with the lift and he tried to make a triggering system. He is still trying to figure it out.

November 26, 2011 Practice

Today, Ian eas not present, but we still accomplished a large fleet of innovations. Jared worked on finalizing the arm, even though there is still work to be done. As I encountered problems with my program, Jaret debugged the code and spent the remainder of the practice simplifing the code. Wheras after Jaret took over programming, I started the proccess of cataloging the robot parts. The current count is posted below (not complete):

43 Cm Channel - 2
29 Cm Channel - 12
Motor - 4
Servo - 2
4.75 Cm Radius Wheel - 4
5 Cm Radius Gear - 3
2 Cm Radius Gear - 7
3 Cm Radius Gear - 5
Servo Controller - 1
Motor Controller - 2

Robot Photos

The "Guts"

Our new 4.2 wheel drive.

Ian D. working on mounting the scissor lift.

Jared R. fixing the transmission's gears.

Tyler T. mounting the Infrared Sensor.

An early test of the articulated arm.

The arm looks cool even if it didn't work.

The new scissor lift.

November 12, 2011 Practice

Today we woked mostly on our robot design. We did some work with our arm by attatching and reworking with the design, like working with weight-related issues. The weight of the servo could not lift the basket. We also started our lift system by attatching it to the robot. We referanced our designs to online videos with Jaret leading on the innovation. I worked on programming the arm autonomously and with the joystick. Today was considerably productive.

FTC Competition Video

Check out this video of one of the first FTC competitions this year. 

http://youtu.be/WAamee1D8SU

November 11, 2011 Meeting

Today Tyler started working on the autonomous program for the competion. He was working with the infared sensor to align the robot in the playing field no matter what color we are. Today Jared finished attaching the plastic wheel guards that aid in protecting the wheels.He spent the remaining time preping the robot for attaching the claw mechinism. Ian continued working on the scissor lift. He made a track for the bottom to follow and added a support beam through the center. Jaret, unfortunately, was not present at today's meeting.

November 5, 2011 Practice

As our practice began, Ian and Jared began with building as usual. Wheras I was programming and Jaret was working on our shirt design.

Jared and Ian both worked on a wheel guard system, until Ian branced off and worked on a lift system for the crate.

After I encountered some joystick issues while programming, Jaret took over with his knowledge of the joystick. He did not acheive much with the program.

After my programming was taken ovey by Jaret two-thirds into the meeting, I wrapped up Jaret's shirt design using some photoshop techniques I know.

In conclusion, our meeting was mostly productive and we are looking forward
to our future meetings where we can perfect work we did today.