Hey friends!
As the week is nearing its end, our robot is close to completion! We have finalized our intake mechanism using a simple sheet of polycarbonate and a few custom brackets to mount everything together. The bot is now fully wired and ready to roll around the field. We have not been able to test climbing yet but we’re hopeful that we can climb up the barges without a struggle. We finalized our belt-driven elevator, and is now working like a charm.
Our business team has also been hard at work, putting designs and logos on the bot so all of our wonderful sponsors get the recognition they deserve. Our business team has been hard at work making the wonderful buttons that we are giving to you at the competition, along with preparing the unveiling presentation and speeches and securing raffle donations.
Thanks for swimming by, we can’t wait to show off what we can do at competition!
Hello Friends!
For these last two weeks, we’ve been troubleshooting our elevator and swerve. We faced a few setbacks with the tension of our belts and binding issues with the elevator. For our tension issue, we changed the input pulleys to a wider diameter, and started on an adjustable tension system. To fix the binding, we loosened the bearings, added grease, redid spacing, and redid the belts. This alleviated the majority of the issues. Next week we’ll finish the tension system, work on the electrical system that extends with the elevator, complete the intake funnel and the climber.
For business, we worked out a script for our unveiling video and filmed it. Also, we emailed potential sponsors in the hopes of securing more funding or parts for our robot. Finally, we continued to work on our pit binder which we will showcase at competition.