Time to get honeycombing, huh? We are almost there now. Not bad for a garage bot, but note the horribly, horribly loose chain. I hate chain. Next year we are using as little as possible. its too late to replace everything so that the chain is all tight . . . It doesn’t fall off, we’ve given it some stress.
Well, there she is.
Last night we got it under weight, and it is currently at a team member’s house (that is where all the pictures are from). I called him this morning and he informed me that they finished drilling on the sprocket, reconfigured the wings, fixed a problem with a drive shaft, put it all back together, and were driving it around last night, nothing fell off . . . they worked until 2AM. Go dedication.
Soo, all we need to do now is to debug our line tracker, which shouldn’t be too horribly diffucult seeing as it was written with the help of a Boeing software engineer.
And we need to tighten the chain. I know its a problem as it appears in those pictures, so please don’t swamp us with posts about how much we need to tighten the chain.
Well, I think its pretty good, seeing as we built it with hand tools and a drill press. And 80/20, of course, but they are the machine shopless team’s best freind.
edit: I think i missed something. Can this get shot over to robot showcase? If its not too much trouble, that is. *#2: thank you, mods!