So we are hoping to get our robot running by the end of the day tomorrow. It really depends on how well we can pull together. Putting in 2 weekend days every week has been amazing, and has made the whole process a lot less stressful...though tiring.
Here is what we have...pretty much...so far. I think we added a bit more with the pneumatics system after this picture was taken. We have the electronics roughed in, and we are starting to rough in the pneumatics. I realized we have a frame perimeter violation that we need to fix tomorrow. One of the linear bearings for deploying the "baby bot" sticks out past the frame barrier so we have to shift that over by an inch to make sure we don't violate any rules.
If you look carefully you can see it closest to the camera...Probably should have caught that in the CAD model. We should have a rough idea as to how much this thing weighs tomorrow. It feels heafty, but hopefully not too heavy.
Here is a pic of our gripper. I think we are adding surgical tubing to make it stick to the shapes a bit better... The back part of the top of the gripper is wood...We ran out of 1/8th aluminum sheet...We are also pretty much out of money so...
To be honest I'm amazed with how much like the CAD model the robot is turning out. Last year we only had 2D CAD, and only one person knew how to use it.
This design was done using turbocad deluxe. Next year we should have a team that knows how to use AutoDesk Inventor. We are just growing and growing.
I'm hoping we can post tutorials on all of our different sub systems early next week.