Day 10: Testing the Shooter

The meeting started with Mr. Greene announcing that February 4^th at the O’Plaine campus at 3:45pm we will be taking our team picture. He also said that going forth in the season, Tuesday’s, Thursday’s, and Saturday’s are required for attendance. Everyone was also advised to talk to their team leaders about when they would be needed to attend the meetings. Corey said today we would start finalizing and testing designs. Media team took video of the Mechanical team launching the ball from the shooter. Animation looked up Mayan and Egyptian buildings on the computer for ideas. Business team wasn’t needed today, but team leader Becca Kouba came to prepare for tomorrow. Mechanical team worked on the prototype for the shooter and helped the Controls team. They also proceeded in building the second chassis, as well as getting the intake roller working with the robot. Members also carried around the test shooter to see how easy/hard it would be for the regional competitions. Controls team built their second pneumatic circuit for the launcher. Programming spent their time getting the program from last year’s robot. CAD team researched on Chief Delphi for the robot. Safety team went on the computers to CAD the pit in Autodesk Inventor. The leaders of each team also logged onto Skype to talk to Team 5133 from Aguascalientes, Mexico. We shared with them ways to get more money for their team by getting sponsors, and we gave them advice on how to design their robot. They were shocked to hear that it was 5°F here. Overall, research and development was today’s main focus.