Progress Update
Welcome back, everyone! It has been quite some time since we last updated the blog, and we are delighted to say the bearing blocks and intake plates we have been waiting for finally arrived! As for today, we worked on testing our elevator codes.Programming Update
To prevent any problems, we decided on transferring the elevator code to the previous slider branch (with only the slider code in it) for the testing phase. We started with 30% power, gradually increasing it to 100%, as you can see below:
30%
50%
100%
CAD Update
The intake plates we received today, presented below, belong to 2 of the 4 intakes we have designed so far. We plan on beginning its assembly tomorrow accordingly to the OnShape design, also presented below. We additionally have 3 other intakes, one similar to the Everybot, and the other one similar to 3255’s intake. Other than that, we finalized our main subsystems, there are just small details left for now :)
As the CAD team, we decided not to use pneumatics. That’s why we made a gearbox that assembled the slider and had a 1:82 ratio.
Everybot Intake
The purpose of this intake is to keep it simple and include something we are confident is functional. The biggest problem we faced was the width of the intake because it bumped into the swerve guards. To reduce that problem, we used a double-sided belt. It also helped us to reduce weight. We will be trying our intake with different wheel combinations.
3255 Inspired Intake 1
3255 Inspired Intake 2
This intake will be sent to manufacturing after the mounting to the slider is completed.
Final
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