Every day the robot seems to slowly come together bit by bit. At this point we have about 58% of the robot parts completed. We finished one beam for the tube and should be able to finish the second tube tomorrow. We hope to get plates (out of lexan so we can test out variables) for the tube (and shooter) and intake either tomorrow or on Saturday. We also need to tap a bunch of holes in about 10 pieces (2 holes each), which will not take a short amount of time. Since we are getting 8 hours to work on Saturday, we should be able to definitely finish the tapping and also have time (and all the parts) left to assemble the tube and intake onto the robot.
We should also be able to have some build kids prototype an intake from both sides. This would mean it would be able to actually center balls and we would throw a couple at it (we now have 7 balls for testing and driving) at the same time to see if jamming would be a problem with the mecanum roller concept we have right now. If it is, we’ll adjust accordingly.
At the same time electrical will be working on the electrical plate and should hopefully finish on Saturday as well so that they can wire the robot (or what is built of it) after we assemble it on Saturday. If for some reason the building goes late and electrical doesn’t have time to wire, we should still be able to get that done by the end of Monday so that Software has plenty of time to test and adjust.
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