Today things continued to come together, and some designing began again, as the latch needed designing. Also, the drive base was worked on a little today, in terms of the organization of the bellypan electronics, tanks, compressor, and so on.
Shooter
Today was a big day for the shooter mechanism as a whole. While the latch was the pressing happenings, as we needed that before we could get the robot fully functioning, we began figuring out the surgical tubing loops. With the latch, we figured we needed something with a progressively increasing slope, so the bar could slowly open the latch, then let the latch close at the end from the surgical tubing getting it back to a closed position. The only question was how sloped does it have to be, but, since we have the wood cutter available, it was easy to immediately start playing around with it and begin the iterations. So far, the current iterations just haven't had a big enough slope, so it was a bit hard to open.
In terms of the surgical tubing loops, we went out and bought some brass barbed fittings, and went ahead and put them into one of the sides of the surgical tubing. To keep the tubing on the brass fitting, we went ahead and used thick wire and wrapped it in the grooves of the barbs, squishing the surgical tubing between the fitting and wire. This seems like it will work well, and looks really flashy.
Intake
Not much should be happening with the intake for a while, since it's all finished.
Drive Base
Today we went ahead and worked on the organization of components mounted on the practice bellypan, and mounted the compressor and rest of what needed to be on the bellypan. Pretty much, it was just putting stuff on and seeing if the current positions of motor controllers and everything else was okay.
Approximate times of working: 3:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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