Coping With Coding

This week we plan to finish our robot entirely. We have successfully built the body and surprisingly in good time also. We are now proceeding to do the coding of the robot and testing the motors.
We ran into a minor inconvenience and had to restart the coding from the beginning.

Adjusting motors to our robot

Programming our robot.

Square Bot

Today the square bot's entire body was successfully put together and now the only thing left to do is to program both the brain and controller to get this thing moving. Here are some pictures of the completed robot and the next steps moving forward as far as rigging up the brain and attaching the battery to the chassis.

Pulling Ourselves Together.

With everything we need now consolidated and fitting in with the directions for the "square bot" build we're finally ready to move forward. Never rushing the process and maintaining a good eye for detail as we keep reference handy. Each part has its place and nothing will be missed or put to waste, until then, here's us continuing to work.

Bits And Pieces

Here's the start of our assembly of the "square bot" chassis. Having consolidated all the necessary parts it's now just a matter of sorting through everything bit by bit and patiently bringing it together. We aim to do this right the first time, even if that means not quite rushing the pace of this build.

Raw Materials

Here is the first step in building what will hopefully be a very functional robot, but first, we need the raw materials. And with that in mind we got to work today pulling apart the old, previously built models and putting into inventory all of the scraps and components we'll need for later. Here's some of how that went.

Getting Started

So after Breaking the record for the most badges (67) and going through all the presentations we are finally getting started. Are goals for the week are to clean out our new cart and also finish dismembering the previous robot for parts.

Here we are breaking down the robot.

We are also learning about the parts and where they go by doing this.

Monday Coding

Here's our first day in applying our present coding knowledge to
the virtual worlds present in ROBOTC. As you can see we're figuring out the basic movement patterns of the virtual robot. We are also writing more and more complex code to better guide it along.



   

New Arrivals

A new member has appeared, Devin Taylor. As you can see by the picture he is hard at work. I have basic knowledge of html and java script. My future robot is a catapult that has capabilities to launch even the heaviest objects. I have big plans to contribute to this team in any way possible.