Crunch Time!

As the season is winding down, progress is slowly but surely being made. Today, the design and fabrication team is working on finishing up some of the sub-mechanisms, but faced a problem when the band saw broke down. Because of this, design and fabrication leader Tanner, had to spend time assembling a new band saw. Although the band saw broke, sub-mechanisms are close to being done. Progress on the chassis of the robot is also close to being finished, but some minor setbacks are impeding progress.

The controls team was working on designing a two tiered controls board, which would use less space and give more real estate for the sub-mechanisms to mount on the chassis. The programming team was working on foundational robot code for robot vision and sub-mechanism movement. But because of the unfinished status of the robot, their code is not totally completed.

Drivers are also anticipating the finishing of the robot, to get their hands on the robot and practice driving. Drivers were selected this week when they were asked to take a driver practical and driver test with the robot from last year. Hopefully by the end of today, there will be a robot completely assembled and ready to test on.

Justin Giss milling

Two tiered controls board