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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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
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.
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
from 1392
team 612
working on camera tracking
built a frame
almost done with the drive system
designing ramp
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!
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!
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.
We have almost figured out how difficult it is.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Well this is the rookie year, so we have no idea what we are doing. We have designed the basic idea of our arm, but as for the driveline we are lost somewhere in the abysis. Am I allowed to request help on this website?
We are down to a couple things on our strategy radar. We hope to get or requirements down this weekend. Initiating prototyping.
ALLOWED to ask for help?? Forget allowed, try ENCOURAGED!! Start a thread in the Technical forum (ideally the Technical Discussion subforum) with as clear a description of the problem as possible. (General Forum might work, but the thread is likely to be moved.)
2186 reporting in!!
Week 1:
After much deliberation on what we want the robot to do, we decided to continue deliberating in hopes that it will solve itself. The design has evolved, devolved, evolved again, been lost, found, and turned into beaurocratic compost. The leadership can be found weeping in the corner, engineers trying fruitlessly to get a grasp on the problem and the programmers, the programmers seem complete unaware of what is happening.
Seriously, we have started the drive system to find out a transmission is not performing to proper standards, our frame base has been constructed and we have our wheels. Still not quite sure what the robot will do (my hopes are a coffee machine:D ) but it will be worked out today.
McKenzie out.
Team 125:
So far this week the arm people have been working out and finally decided on a design and got that cadded up. We also have been deliberating on what kind of end-effector would be ideal for our team and came up with 2 designs and will be constructing them both to see what is most effective.
Our drive train team has been ridiculously busy at work but has made a signifigant amount of progress and is about half way done with our 100% custom drivetrain which everyone will have to come check out come build season because its going to be NICE.
Other than that the programmers have been telling us to put sensors everywhere so were going to be doing that and hopefully we’ll keep up with this pace!