DECEMBER 2018
new chassis
December 5, 2018
“Today we started planning to improve on our autonomous After mapping the path the robot will have to follow, we started calculating some of the distances our robot will have to cross. We figured out the distance between the landers and the line the samples are on using geometry. I also altered the program that displays the encoder values to ensure that it works more efficiently.”-Kathryn
December 19, 2018
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Make new lander hook
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Repair lander arm
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Fix strafing
GOALS
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Autonomous
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Unhook
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Lower
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Color sensor
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Move to color block
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Reinforce chassis
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BUILDING
Fixed the lander arm
CODE
December 20, 2018
A Description of our New Release Mechanism
“Instead of balancing it, we’re working on creating a platform that the slit on boat goes in so we can just slide it off by pushing it with a servos. We’re going to mount the servos on the bottom of the chassis so it doesn’t obstruct anything.”- Addison
Creating a New Chassis
“Our old chassis was created with tetrix parts that were frankensteined to be the length of 16 I was able to find some complete 16” parts after rummaging through a lot of the pieces that the other teams at albemarle had discarded after the first competition. This increased the structural integrity of the entire robot. In addition we added another channel going across the middle in the shape of an H which will make it even stronger.”-Benny
Managing Our Wires
“We’re using split nylon wire loom tubing for all of our wires this time around. Last time we had problems of stray wires getting ground down by our gears, so the tubing will help to organize better.”-Sami