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.

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.

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.

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.

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.