Mechanical

This week, we finalized our chassis size and began building our bumper. We also completed a working intake mechanism and started improving our shooter. For the intake, we will use a three-roller over the bumper design; we added an extra roller to help guide the game piece over our high bumper more smoothly.

Our shooter will be a double-barreled design, and after several adjustments, we refined it to achieve better intake and shooting performance. Both the shooter and intake will run on belts with custom-made pulleys. For our transfer system, we will also be using belts. In addition, we fully completed all field elements and prototyped a climb mechanism.

Programming

This week, our programming team focused more on electrical, and mechanical engineering tasks. We helped out the mechanical team with a variety of different tasks, and we primarily focused on wiring the electronics within the robot so it can properly function. As we knew the layout of the electronics would most likely be subject to change due to the likely change of our robot design, we wired the robot with this in mind, making sure it would be easy to reconfigure later.

We hope to finalize the wiring of our robot, so we can soon begin programming our new subsystems!

Business & Media

We finished working on our Impact responses and submitted! We have begun working on our presentation and creating our boards.