Over the past couple of days we’ve been finishing up drivetrain parts and working on a couple of other parts. We also sent out large orders to a couple new sponsors and waterjet as well. We should hopefully get those parts towards the middle of end of this week.
In house, however, we were able to finish the parts necessary for our drivetrain today. Unfortunately, we were unable to get it assembled as was the plan because we did not have enough people to come to the meeting. We were able to quickly put on the baseplate using mock-rivets (I don’t know if that is the actual name but that’s their basic purpose). Immediately we saw a gaping problem with hole alignment. After some analysis we can see that there was some mess-up in the waterjet part and the holes were misaligned. On Monday we plan on assembling the whole drivetrain by starting with the brackets on the top part first and then flipping the robot upside down to attach the baseplate.
Build has, as I said before, also had some progress on other smaller parts. Today we were also able to add bumpers to our list of things completed. As of now, parts simply take lots of time and progress is slow.
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