Friday, March 31, 2017

Deskjob

This Friday came along productively as usual, with some decent coding progress being made as we get ready for the next challenge. The day was spent coding and testing out instructions for the robot's ability to autonomously complete the next challenge.



Monday, March 27, 2017

Working Out The Kinks

This Monday was a productive one with several technical issues concerning our robot being resolved. After a good amount of time spent experimenting with the wiring we found that it in fact was not the problem, the code was. So, after some renovation concerning the code we got our robot up and moving fully once again.



Friday, March 24, 2017

Grinding To a Halt

This Friday provided for some challenges in that we found one of the motors on our robot's frame was not functioning properly, as well as other parts of the robot losing mobility due to what we believe are electrical faults. It was a little rough finding a suitable motor and working everything into place but, it's always good to have something to do.



Monday, March 20, 2017

Working Things Into Place

Today was a day of testing and tweaking with the arm on our robot again, working out kinks as they come along. Easy day. Moving on, to make the movements more controlled we are looking to attach a counterweight to the back of the arm. Another thing we're looking to put into shape is the wiring situation, make everything more responsive.



Friday, March 17, 2017

Easy Day

It was an easy day today being that the clawbot was fully built and its arm was now fully functional and able to complete what it had to do. We went over its functions a few more times and decided to let the little guy rest after some inspection to the body. Here's pictures.


Monday, March 13, 2017

Tightening Up

Just another day at the office today with bringing together all the necessary parts along with continually speculating and experimenting with our design. The arm itself appears to present a bit more of a challenge than just a square chassis but, knowledge and tenacity, as I was told at one point, solve everything. All we have to do here is keep working from the bottom up.



Friday, March 10, 2017

Redistributing The Weight

Today we began a new build that involved restructuring the previous squarebot chassis to make room for an arm. We're in the process of trying out new designs and relocating some of the features to make a very efficient and functional new body for our robot. The current progress we have is a little bare-bones, but, all in good time.





Monday, March 6, 2017

Repair And Replace

Today the amount of team members available was cut in half, with one of us helping another group catch up and another still being missing entirely. But, this allowed for a change of pace and for the remaining members, Devin and I, to look over the body again finding two bend axles. Of course the work of replacing them was done quickly and efficiently. I really enjoy taking things apart and putting them back together, at my own pace anyways.



Friday, March 3, 2017

A Bump In The Road

This week began successfully enough with the completion of the robot's body and attaining it's full function and mobility. Now the next step is to get the coding right so as to send the robot on the right course, and so we have found an obstacle. But, that's fine, making minor adjustments one at a time and running trial and error processes the right pattern of code will soon be found and put into motion.