Author Archives: Todor Andreev

Over the past couple of days we’ve continued working on finishing up climber pieces as well as completing, testing, and attaching the tube and intake onto the chassis. We were able to get the shooter and intake plates for the tube attached on Tuesday and some of the wheels and motors that go along withContinue reading “February 13th”

So much happened today. We started the day with the primary goal of attaching the intake and tube onto the robot and wiring the robot. Some parts still needed to be made for the tube adjustment mechanism and several parts tapped and/or turned (done on the lathe) for the tube and intake. We started offContinue reading “February 8th”

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 forContinue reading “February 7th”

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)Continue reading “February 6th”

Now we have a lot to talk about today. The drivetrain was completed on Monday (February 3rd) and it worked out flawlessly. We easily got it assembled with the brackets on top and drilled out holes on the bottom of the baseplate to use for rivet attachment. The gearboxes, chain, and wheels work together asContinue reading “February 5th”

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 ableContinue reading “February 1st”

We had a good amount of progress over the last two days. I also forgot to mention a few things in my 10-day recap post from the 28th, so I’ll put those down at the bottom. Build continued to work on pieces and were able to complete four more. We now have seven pieces completedContinue reading “January 30th”

Apologies for the very long time gap between posts. I’ll try as much as possible to capture all the progress since the 17th in this post. Design was able to continue working on the various sub-systems throughout all of last week and, since Sunday night, are now done with the design of the robot. AContinue reading “January 28th”

Hello team, Finals week just finished and we should be able to ramp up productivity on some missed deadlines (most notably finishing the field elements and working on autonomous). However, this past week was not void of progress. Design-wise, a considerable amount of progress was made on the elevator. The primary structure is in placeContinue reading “January 17th”

Hello team, Although most of the team is out for finals week, there are just a few notable updates concerning our progress. In design, a couple of small additions were made including a holder mechanism on the end of the tube (so that the balls don’t automatically get shot) as well as a battery holderContinue reading “January 14th”