Week 2: Where's your Robot?

[Sachiel7]

We've got 70% of the design drafted in inventor, the rest on paper. Still finalizing the CAD end...
We have our Transmission and Chassis complete (kitbot) and we've just got the controls and arm left. Whew, we're running ahead of our schedule!
BTW, this is our teams first year using inventor, and my first year drafting up the (entire) bot. It's REALLY helping!

[Poz]

Bottom part of robot (frame, transmission, wheels (new fancy ones), etc.) are mostly completed and we hope to have electronics to put in within a week so we can drive it around (vroom!)

Unfortunatly, arm is still in design phase *sigh*

[Alan Anderson]

I am dismayed at the blatant bias against programmers in the poll. Why is it assumed that the robot must be built before the software can be done? Yesterday we had a program but nothing to run it on, so the software team and electrical team hacked together a simple chassis to test out the vision tracking.

The competition 'bot is being CADded up, and there's a group putting together the kit chassis for prototyping. But the software is already running and driving (and following green, if a little erratically).

[EOC]

Drive train & electrical components installed, testing underway. Crane/arm prototype built, revisions required. We are using a telescoping arm, but its way to massive. EOC

[Anubuss]

-Basic idea is up
-claws going through prototyping
-Arm drawn in solid works, ready to be examined and built
-drive train done
-chasse under construction

[Max Lobovsky]

• Every major part CADded to the point where construction can begin
• Mockup for one crucial, hard to CAD part done
• Parts for almost everything ordered
• Metal should be here today
• Drive train prototype built weeks ago (and luckily, it's pretty appropriate)

[imjustmatthew]

As for 638, we're almost done CADing, as per the "requirements" of the game we've developed an arm to lift tetras and a sweet drive train based on the 4 CIMs and the FIRST Gearboxes. We've also begun parts ordering for the chassis and static segment of the arm.

Hopefully with a more experience design and build team this year we'll be able to stick to a solid schedule and get this thing done.

[Denman]

our cadding is seriousl behind sadly, what with our cad leader being off sick since the 2nd day of the xmas holidays and yet to return...

But otherwise we are massively ahead of schedule in relation to our teams history... maybe its b/c we have less experienced people?
last year we had nothing built until the week before because we had too mayn good ideas lol!

[Madison]

Our chassis and associated gearboxes are designed, though construction has yet to start on any final parts. We have prototypes in both full- and small-scale of mechanisms and the entire robot, respectively. I have a good idea of what I'd like to do for the remaining parts that are yet to be designed, but the rest of the team is examining alternate solutions to ensure that we use the simplest, most efficient design possible.

[Paul H]

1504: We don't have any materials or a machine shop. We have a great chassis design and (in my oppinion) a pretty sketchy gripper design, but no way to build either.

I'm kind of worried...

[BadgerBadger]

We have decided what our manipulator is gonna do and how its gonna do it but we haven't defined our chassis design. Its a little backwards but in past years our chassis and manipulator teams have been working against each other rather than with so compared to where we usually are and progress is better than none.

As for CAD we have some rough sketches in Inventor and we will start to finalize the manipulator ones today and the chassis ones within the week.

[roboticsguy1988]

Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges

The robot chassis is still on a bunch of scratch paper
We built the kit bot w/tranny and are developing the basic program. We have a camera that will pan, track and recognize colors.

Wayne Doenges
CAD Mentor

He is lying, we had our robot done the same day as the kickoff . lol, ok, i guess he isn't lying.

[Jeff Waegelin]

The CAD work is pretty much done on our base. We have plans for the arm drawn up on paper, and we'll be putting those into CAD during the week. We're going to try to start building the chassis this week or weekend, and start the arm by next week, sometime.

[Goobergunch]

We've built the basic lower frame (okay, so we're using the kitbot). We're still in the process of designing the arm, but have a fairly decent idea of what we want to do. We're also starting to test out the camera.

[Hershey]

Well...our bot has been planned, made accurate measurements apon, and our chassis is being created and with a rough electronics board. In comparison to last year, our first year, this year's bot is "lightyears away from last year" as our instructor said. As for inventor, we still need a lot of work on that.