Every day we’re getting closer and closer to that mid-deadline of completed tube and intake assembly. Today we were fortunate enough to get to stay until 5 and because of that a lot of progress was complete.
Build-wise we were able to complete the other tube side beam and start drilling and tapping holes for the angled plates that hold the tubes on the tube. We were also able to start assembling a prototype to test ball jamming in the intake. Both the drilling/tapping and the intake prototype should be finished tomorrow.
Mr Korol also got one piece of tubing for the climber done at 3D Systems as well as prototype lexan plates for the intake and tube. This means that once we finish up a couple more pieces tomorrow, we will have everything we need to assemble the tube and intake. If we keep the same pace, the climber should be assembled mid to late next week (but it would not take away from software time as they will have everything except the climb to test with).
Finally, we made some additions to our tracking spreadsheet so that we can see a breakdown of parts for each subsystem. It isn’t a complete representation of the progress, though, because some amount of 10 small parts might take half the time that it takes to make 1 hard part and you can’t completely capture that on the spreadsheet. It does give you a general sense though.
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