Today was the beginning of no longer playing with our current bot, but building what we will use for the next large part of time. Unfortunately, our laser-cut metal sponsor, TMM Precision, had a lot of people gone and were really backed up, so we weren't going to get our metal gussets until the beginning of next week, so today was a day of creating a slight change in bot.
Shooter
Today was yet another day of not testing or playing with the shooter much, as everyone was either focused on programming stuff, the drivetrain, or frame of the robot.
Intake
Pretty much, intake was same as shooter, in that it wasn't worked on at all today.
Drive Base
Today was the big day for the drive base/drivetrain. We went ahead and took everything off the prototype practice robot today, and started cutting the pieces down to size, so we could go ahead and send it all off to get anodized. Also, we began to cut out wood gussets to use rather than the metal ones we would get in another week, since we have a wood laser-cutter in house, so we decided we probably could really take advantage of it. In addition to cutting everything down to size and designing/cutting out the gussets, we began cutting out a new frame out of square tubing, so we can go ahead and rivet everything together and see how the wooden gussets hold up.
Approximate times of working: 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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