Tonight completes our fourth week of the build season. We've accomplished much in a very short time. Despite two snow days off school due to a blizzard, Robotics team members continued to meet in the build room to work on the robot construction and programming.
Fabrication of the lift mechanism assembly has begun and will be mounted to a turret, which allows pivoting (azimuth control) and elevation for retrieval and placement of the game peices.
Wiring is now complete and installed into the finished chassis and drivetrain of Robot #1.
Leonardo da Vinci would have been proud of this artful masterpiece!!
A separate team of students turned several key components on the metal lathe tonight.
The material is a DELRIN plastic and the parts were made for end caps on the roller drums of the end effector.
Another team of students prepared spacers for installation in the Mini-bot.
Of course this involves more drilling and tapping of holes!
What would a build room be without dust bunnies everywhere? It's an occupational hazzard! ;-)
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