@ Cire. That arm is absolutely awe inspiring. I want our team to watch that video. I especially like the fact that you controlled it using a miniarm at your driver station. Seriously cool.
This weekend has been both good and bad for us here at 2980. On wednesday we drive the robot around. On Saturday morning...Nothing. Here is what happens. The driver station classmate says that the cRio has code. The jaguar lights go solid amber. We move the joysticks and nothing.
At this point we are concluding that it is the classmate PC. Everything else has been replaced or re-imaged. We are hoping to be up and running again in the next few days. That way we can finally shoot our electronics and programming tutorials.
We did get some other things worked out and finished.
We re did some of the welds on our frame, and welded up a practice frame.
We also took our main robot apart and cleaned it up a bit.
Here is a way to use surgical tubing to make sure your bolt heads are safe to be around. In this case these two are on the side of a linear bearing that will move back and forth. We also put them on bolts that extend into blind parts of the frame where people may put their hands. This makes it so that you can't catch your skin on the bolt and cut yourself.
We also shot a few videos explaining how different things work.
Jenn explains the pneumatics system
Clamps explains the arm
Oprah explains the mini-bot
You know your coming down the wire when you go into a hardware store and walk out with only 1 screw and 3 feet of wire.
Thanks,
Edoga