Over today, not really anyone came, since most of us were working until at least 9:30 PM on the robot last night, and had school, so people were mostly wiped. As I was expecting no one to really show up and not much to happen, I ended up leaving early at 6:30 PM. Today kids went ahead and built a battery cart, and we began to talk a bit about the catcher, although not much. Also, the reveal video got lots of work done on it, and should be ready by tomorrow.
2/21/2014
Today the release video officially was released, and is right here. As shown, the shot is nice and flat, but we definitely can increase the shooter power still to make sure autonomous goes in.
In terms of things that happened today, the unfortunate happened, and we continue to struggle with finding a permanent fix for the winch. Today the kevlar rope ended up snapping, so we went out and just got the heaviest duty stuff we could find finally, which is in a way a double strap with nylon in it rated at 4000 pounds, which better hold up when we end up installing it. Also, we ended up deciding we needed to use some sort of clamp for the strap to make sure it wouldn't rip off entirely if it ended up not being to stay together near the holes for some reason. Pretty much, as before, the main thing still bothering us is the winch, and everything else is pretty a okay.
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