Week 10: Goals

Okay. We were once again ousted from the tech room for FCAT (because clearly they don't want us to get anything done).
Right now we're working on the endofactor. We're still doing this because we haven't been in here to build it. Soon, though. Very soon. 

Shuffling around to get us parts.

Coding!

Double-checking how the endofactor connects.

Week 9: Accomplished This Week

Can we really call this a week, though?
Okay, hello again. Since yesterday...not very much has occurred. I'm not really positive why there are two posts this week, but hey, why not.
Arvin continues to work on the SolidWorks. I continue this blog (gotta go back and make sure everything's good), and Shaina and Philippe are connecting the endofactor.
Cheers and happy weekend.

Week 9: Goals

And so began the week of crazy.

Monday and Wednesday we were all relocated to Miss Beyland's classroom where we played games, because really, what else would we have done?

Tuesday was EOC, so nothing got done.

We get to do this again next week, too. Yay us ._.

In other news, the endofactor for the ball is finished, and it's bright yellow! It's being mounted onto the robot as I type right now. We still need to practice with it and code it and such, but progress! Next we apparently get to play tug-o-war. Ouch.

Solidworks Vex Arm

Week 8: Accomplished This Week

Woo! Easter is coming this weekend.

We're basically finished with the SolidWorks for the tetrahedron challenge, however we're running into a problem with the Vex pieces. We'll figure that out.

Shaina is still working on making an endofactor for the ball, and it looks pretty darn cool, if I say so myself. Seems pretty practical, too.

Week 8: Goals

Hello! We are now in our eighth week of working on this robot. Wow, does time...move strangely.

So, we're working on the SolidWorks for the arm and such still. For some reason the bot never got stuck onto the origin of the piece, so it likes to move around all the time. Really annoying, that's what that is. Still, it'll get done. Arvin is working on it right now and I help him out whenever necessary.

Shaina is making an endofactor (hope that's spelled right) for the bouncy ball challenge, and I don't know exactly what to with that since she's just repeatedly saying "Don't worry about it" when we ask her what's going on/what she's doing/anything, really.

See you on Friday :)

Philippe and Camacho doing...not really sure, actually.

Here's our robot with the claw-thing removed from the tetrahedron.

And here is Arvin, working on our SolidWorks.

Week 7: Accomplished This Week

Hello! Well, today there's a substitute so this is just a quick blog update.

This week we finally, FINALLY did the tetrahedron challenge and disassembled the robot so we can build the piece for the bouncy ball challenge.

SolidWorks is...going. I don't think it's going particularly well (all of us but Philippe have worked on it, make of that what you will...though he has sat with us while we worked), since a lot of the structure was backwards from the original model based on what our bot looked like. It's almost all good now, though.

Week 7: Goals

Hi guys.

This week we'll be trying to get the tetrahedron challenge completed and go into overdrive with the bouncy-blue-ball challenge (don't actually have a name for that one, sorry). Our robot is still getting its arm completed and it has to be programmed!

Here're pics of Shaina, Arvin, and Philippe working on the arm.

And this is our tetrahedron, made by myself.

Week 6: Accomplished This Week

So. We've been working hard on our arm this week. It is mostly built and really all we have left is programming it. Yay! 

Our tetrahedron is not being cooperative; hint: don't make it purely out of hot glue. It really just does not work well.

SolidWorks Arm