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Thursday, January 31, Week 4 Sadly, we did not have practice yesterday due to the extreme cold. Though we will have practice tomorrow (Friday) to make up for it! Arm: We assembled most of the gearbox as well as the right and left sides of the superstructure assembly. We still need to tighten the motors on and bolt on... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, January 29, Week 4 Intake: Cut out our polycarb pieces on the shopbot! We also assembled the two "tusks", which I did not get a picture of. Our intake group also thought through the main hatch mechanism prototypes and came up with a very clever new idea. The took a piece of wood and... Continue Reading →
Monday, January 28, Week 4 Week 4!?!?! This is where things start to get a little crazy. Arm: Fabricated the second triangle gearbox plate. They look so nice thanks to our professionals (freshman) who deburred and sanded for like 2 hours! We also spent time figuring out which lengths of #10 bolts to order. (Something... Continue Reading →
Saturday, January 26, Week 3 Intake Design review notes: Both prototypes had good cargo intakes. We learned Velcro is very unreliable and we will probably need a new hatch mechanism.We are not sure which hatch mechanism to go with but the current options are: arrowhead, a claw/grabber (not yet prototyped), and a piston type grabber.... Continue Reading →
Thursday, January 24, Week 3 Arm Based on our part drawings, we finished cutting out parts on the shopbot and milled all but one part. We will start assembly on Saturday! Also still working on chain tensioner...it is proving to be very complicated. Intake Our intake subassembly did a lot of testing of their prototype... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, January 22 and Wednesday, January 23, Week 3 Drivetrain On Tuesday, we finished up some parts for the final drivetrain. We cut out the gearbox gussets on the shopbot, and milled the siderails. A Pretty plates, pretty parts We had an issue with the shopbot undercutting our bearing holes so we spent a lot... Continue Reading →
Monday, January 21, Week 3 Intake After making slight modifications to the intake prototype CAD, we began cutting out polycarbonate pieces on the shopbot. We will have to find a new method of cutting them out for the final mechanism because the shopbot sort of melted the pieces and created a very jagged cut. For... Continue Reading →
Saturday, January 19, Week 2 Snow storm? Nah. Climber Design Review We pretty much only have one design for climber and that is the double piston design. Showing our concept sketches to prove dimensions and geometry will work out! Main points from the climber design review: Can we tie the shoulders that hold the pistons to... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, January 15 and Wednesday, January 16 and Thursday, January 17, Week 2 Arm Working overtime to try to crank out a CAD for our arm. On Wednesday night, we had a design review for the arm. The main points we got out of it were: Should move main gearbox lower to lower our center... Continue Reading →
Monday, January 14, Week 2 Concept sketches galore. The arm and intake groups worked pretty closely today as we are all doing lots of CAD. The drivetrain group did not make any changes. Picture of our To Do list for today Intake Concept Sketch For A Double "Hood" Intake, Possible Dual Side Idea Concept Sketch... Continue Reading →
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