Today was one of those days. Our plan for today was to button down the last few issues with our robot and begin shooting tutorials on how everything worked. Well...Instead we found that we no longer had access to our main cRio. The second cRio that we have needed to be imaged. Needless to say our programmer spent the day chasing gremlins in the system. We did manage to shoot video of how our arm works, and video of a test of our mini-bot, but then I forgot the video camera at work.
So...today we got the backing board for our bumpers cut and mounted...We got the arm extension motor mounted, and we managed to figure out something for our minibot...So while today might have been frustrating, it was a rather productive day.
we ended up moving this to the other end of the arm because it hit the tower frame.
this kind of shows where it would hit the tower.
At the end of the day the network/cRio problems were solved, but by then it was time to go. Our team is meeting again tomorrow...which is another day. Hopefully things will run more smoothly.
The real lesson here is that all teams have their off days. The key thing is to have a good time doing it.
Edoga