Month: October 2012

Attendance

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• Hunter
• Mark
• Evan

Journal

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Tasks

• Build Scissor
• Wait for computer to be fixed

Reflections

Today was a build day for the machining of our scissor lift.  Mr. Brian Johnson helped us, accomplish that.  He had to do all of the metal cutting because it is dangerous, but we helped sand some of the pieces and actually began to piece together the scissor lift.Each side of scissor lift consists of 3 Xs reaching a considerable height when extended. We had to go out to get some bits and pieces we needed and we had to hand sand many of the parts on the inside of holes and at weird corners and edges.  We all wore safety glasses to protect our lungs.  The scissor should be completed by 10.25.12 …Still waiting for our poor computer to get fixed.

Attendance

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• Fletcher
• Chris
• Dante
• Erik
• Hunter
• Mark
• Evan
• Justin

Journal

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Tasks

• Mount color sensor
• Work on color sensor

Reflections

Erik and Fletcher mounted the new color sensor on the robot (loaned to us by Hunter’s friend Emory).

Evan removed Erik’s NXT mount because it was in an inconvenient place on the robot.
Fletcher worked on coding the TeleOp program, and Hunter did experiments with the color sensor which we may want to use on the field to follow the lines on the ground.

We talked with Justin about robotics because he is considering joining our team so we talked about what we do in general.

Attendance

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• Erik
• Fletcher

Journal

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Tasks

• Attach Samantha
• Mount NXT

Reflections

Fletcher attached the Samantha module and Erik worked on attaching the NXT brick.  This happened during lunch so there was not very much time to work.

 

Attendance

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• Erik
• Mark
• Fletcher
• Chris
• Dante
• Hunter
• Evan
• Justin

Journal

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Tasks

• Attach power switch
• Make electronics work
• work on the hardware of the robot

Erik and Fletcher and Erik attached the power switch and battery in a prototype sort of fashion which was useful because previously we had neither of those on the robot.

Fletcher showed an idea for a new hand to mark which would not only be cool but also pretty efficient as well.

Hunter designed a really cool logo for our team which consists of four chain links but together in a square shape.

Evan organized the wires and motor boxes, and wired everything together (It turns on!).

Mark got the robot parts ready to design a new arm, and came up with an idea of mounting the arm and hand on the scissor lift which will mount on the base of the robot.