Week 14: 5-24-19

This week we accomplished a lot. We officially completed the autonomous tetrahedron challenge and we started... AND completed the tank control racquetball challenge. Monday we did our official for the tetrahedron challenge and Tuesday we came in every chance we got to build, test, and complete the racquetball challenge. The rest of the week I caught up on the blogs and I was able to start coding for the autonomous racquetball challenge. We only have one more class after today (Friday May 24th) so hopefully I can finish or at least get close to finishing the final challenge without the seniors, if not, we've had a good year and worked really hard.

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Week 14: 5-20-19

This week we will finish what we started... meaning we'll actually complete the autonomous tetrahedron challenge and this official WILL work! We also plan to start altering the claw for the racquetball challenge (for tank control) and even finish the challenge. If we do that we'll be golden to tackle the autonomous racquetball challenge the end of this week and hopefully finish it next week.

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SolidWorks 5-10-19

Week 13: 5-10-19

So... we did two of three of our officials Monday and it didn't go as well as we thought it was going to. So today we did a couple trials and changed the hook length so it wouldn't get caught on the tetrahedron. It worked every trial, so next time we're in the class we'll test it a couple more times and hopefully do our official OFFICIAL.

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Week 13: 5-6-19

This week we will finally do our official for the autonomous tetrahedron challenge and then hopefully start the racquetball challenge.

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Week 12: 5-2-19

We completed the coding for the autonomous tetrahedron challenge and we've tested it multiple times!! Thankfully it wasn't as torturous as the figure 8. Now we'll just have to wait for next week Monday to present our official to Mr. Martin.


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Week 12: 4-30-19

This week our goal is to finish the autonomous tetrahedron challenge. We've already started to code for this challenge last week so hopefully it won't take us lone to finish and we'll be able to start thinking about the racquetball challenge.

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Week 11: 4-26-19

We successfully completed the tetrahedron challenge using tank control! Also... we altered the height of our robot to match the requirement and now our robot is exactly 18 inches!
We've also started to code for the autonomous tetrahedron challenge. We hope to complete that next week.

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Week 11: 4-22-19

I know we've been saying it over and over again, but this week we WILL complete the tetrahedron challenge and we hope to start (and maybe even finish) the autonomous tetrahedron challenge. Along with the challenge we will continue to see if there's an easy way to get the velocity to change.

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Week 10: 4-17-19

So... we didn't end up figuring out how to change the speed, but for future challenges we'll keep researching. This week we completed building our tetrahedron. There's no school Friday, but we've practiced enough with our robot that next week we should be good to go for an official run for the tetrahedron challenge.


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Week 10: 4-15-19

This week we hope to find out how to change the velocity, but if we can't we'll continue to practice the challenge with the speed it's at. This week we also plan to build our own tetrahedron and complete the challenge.


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SolidWorks 4-12-19

Week 9: 4-11-19

Our robot is officially completely built for the challenge. This week we added the claw and got the coding for it working smoothly. We also started practicing for the official run. We successfully got two tetrahedrons on the top hook. However, our trials have been a little difficult because our robot is still really fast and it makes it a lot harder to control. We've tried several things to try and slow down our velocity, however, none of them have worked so our robot still looks like its come out of the Need For Speed movie. We've also completed the Solidworks model and it is up on the blog.


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Week 9: 4-9-19

This week our goal is to finish adding the claw and finish the program for the claw. We hope to have tested the robot for the challenge multiple times this week and maybe even get close to our official for the tetrahedron challenge. Along with completing the challenge, we want to have the Soldworks completed and up on the blog ASAP.


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Week 8: 4-5-19

This week we finished the new and improved chassis. We've successfully switched the rails and we've switched out the small tires to bigger tires. After we finished the chassis, we decided we should test out the tank control and to our surprise we found out we actually built a tank with the speed of a race car. Our robot is extremely fast and pretty heavy on the side with the battery, so next week when we add the claw we'll have to balance it out and fix the velocity.


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Week 8: 4-1-19

       

Welcome back!! We are now back from Spring Break and are ready to tackle the next challenge. This week we will start to modify our robot (change the rails, tires, etc) because the original square-bot design will not work with our alterations of the wheels; we're going to switch to the larger wheels. Along with our physical model, we'll have to alter and add onto our Solidworks model.


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Week 7: 3-20-19

WE FINISHED OUR CHALLENGE!! We finally completed the figure 8 challenge... and boy does that feel good to say. We ended up running it a couple times to practice and we changed some minor timings and then we did our final run. We got it first official run! Next up is to start thinking about our plan for the next challenge... the tetrahedron challenge.

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Week 7: 3-18-19

   
                 Our goals this week is finishing the figure eight challenge. We continue to face discontinuous trails with our robot, which we will try to overcome. The figure eight has been altered by Mr. Martin to make it easier on us. He replaced the chairs with cones which gives us a larger area to move in. WE WILL FINISH THE CHALLENGE THIS WEEK.



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Week 6: 3-14-19

Setting the robot

So... it's not going as well as we thought the rest of this challenge would go, but I think we're making progress. We've adopted a new starting method, of "resetting" the wheels and gear (thank you Mr. Martin) which we have seen a little improvement in how the robot starts off after we hit play. Along with the new little factor we added, we've also programmed the robot's straight stride times to be longer so it'll have more distance from the chairs. This week has been a cycle of program, test, repeat (just like any week, but more tense because we're approaching crunch time). The Goofy Goobers are all a bit disappointed that we haven't completed the challenge, even though we were so close in the beginning. Cross our fingers for next week? See ya then.

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Week 6: 3-12-19

Our main goal for the week is to complete the figure 8 challenge once and for all, I know that the group is pretty over this challenge. We really hope we can finish by Thursday. It would be awesome if we could finish and start thinking about the tetrahedron challenge and our tragedies asap.

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