How's everyone doing?

[Armando Gonzalez]

I write this post to see how is every team doing in this season(so far what have you guys done).

Week 1 (around 5 days of meetings).
So far we have been doing various designs, also we dismantled the top part of out old robot to use him to test this year's bonus.

Week 2
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Week 3
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Week 4
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Week 5
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Week 6
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[burkey_turkey]

Heres what team 422 has done so far:

-We have examined many different strategies and decided on what we want to pursue.
-we decided on what type of drive and the basic frame to use this year.
-we are nearly finished prototyping a few different ring manipulators
-we are nearing a final decision on our lifting mechanism

id also love to hear how far some teams have gotten in just a few days

[chris31]

We have look at strategies and ideas. Our design is almost done. However not much building has been done. Tomorrow we will have a drive system up and running hopefully.

[lopz056]

So far weve gotten the basic drive train design done, but were still conjuring on whether we are going to use 2 or 4 omni wheels on a six wheel drivetrain, we also have the overall arm design done, and were debating on how many joints are going into the arm, for simplicity reasons. other than that were are just starting on programming and fabrication, though not much has gotten done

[teh_pwnerer795]

from 1392

- We got our frame built
- Transmissions mounted
- Idea of arm still being developed
- Electronics mounted and wired

[Priyadarshy]

team 612

working on camera tracking
built a frame
almost done with the drive system
designing ramp

[EricLeifermann]

We are flying! We have a grabber and arm almost designed we have started building the base and drive system. If we can keep this fast pace up it will be an incredible build season for us. The only problem I foresee is keeping the fast pace up and not letting how far ahead this year we are get to our heads. Good luck to all teams!

[T3_1565]

Team 1565

-We can up with a basic design for almost the entire thing
-We have the programmers try and figure out the camera
-We have pnematics testing there supplies
-And we did started cutting metal for everything

Not much yet, but a lot faster than last time we did this (two years ago) as a rookie team, in which we never got anythign done until Week 4 because we were debating over ideas lol. I'm overall happy. Maybe we can actually compete with some of you guys this year haha!

[Justin M.]

Team 321:

Week 1:
Saturday - Came up with basic design.
Sunday: Started CAD model of the chassis.
Monday: Back in school. Finished model of the chassis, added improvements. Brainstormed on the details of the manipulators. Went through kit, organized it in our "KOP Closet".
Tuesday: Began modeling manipulators. Started to build the field. Ordered some parts. Educated freshmen about the game. Programmers started working on the programming for autonomous mode and the CMU cam.
Wednesday: 80% of the robot is modeled. Continued work on the field. Cleaned up our old shop, installed cabinets and put our tool chest into our new shop.
Thursday: Finished robot in CAD. Ordered 80/20 and other parts. Talked to Drexel, sending out mentors to look at our design.
Friday: Half-Day. Ordering cut-off date, so any last minute ordering is done. Probably heading to Drexel's machine shop after school to talk about machining parts and our overall design.

[MrForbes]

We have almost figured out how difficult it is.

[Guy Davidson]

So far this week we worked on our design - drive train, superstructure, and scoring mechanism. We also started machining the drive train and building a prototype of our scorer. Our strategy team started working on its software for this year, and programming started laying groundwork for coding the bot.

[Dan Petrovic]

This is the best we've done as long as I've been on the team.

We have a design finished, we are working on making dimensions for that design. We plan on fabricating a software bot so they can play around with drive code this weekend and we prototyped a manipulator today. Some tweaks have to be done for it to work right.

[Donut]

The general design has pretty much been agreed upon for us; we are just working out exact arm placement/lengths and joints, and what is actually powering the various pieces (pneumatics vs. motors). Our drive system is all but designed and ordered, the only question remaining is whether or not to add a set of wheels in the middle for 6 or stick with 4 this year.

[Uberbots]

Our hovercraft generators just need a little more tweaking...

but seriously from what i have observed we are still prototyping grabber mechanisms and debating between a ramp-bot or a score bot. As far as strategy goes, we have two plans for whichever direction the mechanical team decides to go. the software team is awaiting a robot model and playing with labVIEW and various sensors at the moment

[AdamHeard]

We built a very good simulator that is still being advanced and will aid in scouting. From this we have backed up our decided strategy.

We think we know what mechanisms we want to use, are starting to finish conceptual design and officially started fabricating some components (that are less likely to change, but can be re-fabbed later) today.

We will know our decided system this saturday when we have our preliminary design review.