Re: MOEmentum: Week 5 - "Break Robot. Re-engineer. Repeat."
 

we haven't put the entire robot together just yet, but last saturday electronics was tinkering with something. within the first fifteen minutes of our meeting there was a loud, sparkly sound like someone lit off firecrackers in the middle of class. It was two of the fans. According to them there was dust and, until yesterday, our cooling system was down by fifty percent.

Re: MOEmentum: Week 5 - "Break Robot. Re-engineer. Repeat."
 

1. We have not damaged our robot yet, although we hit a concrete wall and smashed the wall up. :)
2. the weight issue we are only weighting in at 60 pounds so far. lol
3. No major injuries to teammates just the daily cuts and scraps.

Re: MOEmentum: Week 5 - "Break Robot. Re-engineer. Repeat."
 

uh...we broke the transmission once already, apparently we forgot to put in one woodruff key per gearbox :yikes:

anyways, dont u just hate it when everyone's trying to wire at the same time and it becomes a big mess?!?!

For some reason even though i havnt broke anything (yet), everyone on my team blame me for ANY failures...anyone can explain this?

Re: MOEmentum: Week 5 - "Break Robot. Re-engineer. Repeat."
 

We are LUCKY to have not damaged anything while we tested our base. We were going more than our expected speed because the robot had barely any load on it. Our electronics were mounted on the top of the frame with a few clamps holding them on :P

One of the programmers made the bot go full speed forward and then full speed back immediately(no coast), and it flipped, ELECTRONICS FACE DOWN :ahh:

Luckily my battery mount frame stuck out the top a little and prevented anything but itself from hitting the ground.