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January 7

  • Went over the field element and game rules

  • Took inventory of the new kit of parts

  • Started to build robot chassis

January 9

  • Finished building the chassis

  • Discussed game strategy 

  • Watched a teams 3 day robot build video

January 10

  • placed all wiring into chassis

  • planed on how to pick up power cubes

  • Worked on CAD

January 11

  • Helped with team member's Senior Project

  • We Created a frame of a claw to pick up the power cube

January 14

  • Made modifications to the robot

  • Did some CAD and Programming work

January 16

  • Made power cube claw grab the cube but still more work

  • Worked on programming

January 17

  • Installed Eclipse on other laptops

  • Cut Wood to build game elements

January 18

  • Programming work

  • Built Platform for Scale with wood

January 21

  • Cut wood and started Scale Frame

  • Watched programming video

January 23

  • Both Chassis Motors now move

  • Continued to make the parts for game elements

January 24

  • Built most of the scale (game element)

  • Made more buttons and magnets

January 25

  • Put most of the scale together and balanced 

  • Worked on more progamming

January 28

  • Made robot elevator 

  • Cut some wood 

January 30

  • We did our first drive test (Functional)

January 31

  • More CAD work

  • More programming

February 1

  • Replaced robot's electrical platform from wood to Plexiglas

  • Built the robot elevator 

February 4

  • Mechanical work

February 5

  • Mechanical work

  • Spirit

February 6

  • Mechanical work

  • Programming

February 7

  • ​Attached the elevator to the robot

  • Programming

February 8

  • Mechanical work

  • Programming

February 10

  • Mechanical work

  • Electrical work

February 11

  • added claw and pulley system to the power cube elevator

February 12

  • Started to build a permanent Claw

  • Built Robot Ramp 

February 13

  • Continuing to build a permanent Claw

  • Began to place Robot Ramp 

February 14

February 15

  • Started to make a place for the ramps

  • Programming

February 16

  • Adding ramps

  • Programming

February 17

  • Finished Adding ramps

  • Programming

February 18

  • Placed bumpers

  • Replaced mounts

February 19

February 20

  • Test drove the robot. more work needed

  • fix the coding to single stick drive

  • Replaced the elevator rope with stronger rope

  • added wench for ramps for both sides

  • bagged the robot

March 15

  • NOTE: fell behind on updates

  • started on making a practice Robot that can function the same as the competition robot

March 18

  • Took the robot out of the bag for 4 hours

  • weighed it. the robot is within the requirements of 120 Ibs 

March 21

  • packed up the trailer for the trip to Mason High School for setup

March 22

  • Built the pit 

  • Inspected and weighed the robot 

March 23

  • within matches we have found problems and fixed them

  • Finished the day at ranking at 29

March 24

  • Finished the qualifying at ranking at 16  out of 40

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