1/31/2014 Day 27: Everything Slowly Coming Together

Today was another day of working on awards and other things, but we did start getting everything together, and should be done by either end of this week or early into Week 5.

Shooter

Today was the beginning of cutting the catapult parts and assembling the catapult and tower.  The shooter was only worked on lightly due to trying to get everything else mounted and attached.

Intake

Today, the structure of the intake (intake without the pistons or motors) was finally mounted onto the robot frame.  Also, we went ahead and started attaching the motors, chains, and sprockets, so we entirely finished mounting the intake subsystem onto the practice bot.

Drive Base

Today we finished the frame stuff, and started mounting things, and ended up getting all of the intake on today, and began mounting parts to the frame to mount the frame onto the drivetrain.  After the difficulties of last year, we decided this year to use pins to keep the frame on the drivetrain, so we can easily take the frame off to get to the electronics within the drive base.

Approximate times of working: Meeting not attended (out of town)