Team Six/Journal
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Day 1: 1/9/12
Hello, world! There exists a wiki.
In the beginning Redshift created some design ideas and the Pegbot. Now the Pegbot was pretty square and also didn't drive straight, darkness was over the Pegbot because it didn't have sensors (although the camera showed promise).
Quotes
Bianca: Can you talk and solder at the same time?
Will: Yes, but I might burn myself.
Tej: Do we really need to test this again?
Will: It will make me feel really good.
Day 2: 1/10/12
Split into two groups--Bianca and Will on mechanics, Tej and Ryan on software.
Bianca and Will: Went to Stata loading dock; got lots of rollers, gears, axles from printers. Mocked up a shooter mechanism. Shooter will have two wheels (same as drive wheels) driven at 300-400rpm by a geared up drive motor (as it stands now). Came up with initial design for robot as a whole. Will will CAD up shooter model and possibly robot too.
Tej and Ryan: Worked on mocking up overall software organization. Worked on getting Checkpoint 2 ready--inconsistent sensor readings. Problems: analog/digital pins different; problems with arduino.py?; lagging, etc. You should update with more details.
Day 3: 1/11/12
Split into two groups again, same as before--Bianca and Will on mechanics, Tej and Ryan on software.
Bianca and Will: Tested a roller mechanism using rubber bands and printer parts. Discovered that it was not feasible. Looked at FRC Aim High ('06) robots, and decided on a ferris wheel design. Cue lots of discussing design. Went to a bike shop/MITERS/hardware store looking for an appropriately sized wheel, no luck. (Did find sliders.) Decided that Will would make a wheel in Edgerton tomorrow after training. Mocked up robot in cardboard (Yay Charles!) and started sketching designs. Tomorrow: CAD, and hopefully a Woodbot (Yay Rudolph!) by the end of the day.
Tej and Ryan: Should update the wiki.
Naming scheme
Blarg: Process/module/thingamajig
Charles: Cardbot (Cardboard robot mockup)
Ferrous: The Ferris wheel in our new design
GLADOS: Eee PC
HAL: Camera
Hubble/Hubbaly/Hubbaly Hubbaly: Acrylibot (Final robot)
Rudolph: Woodbot (Wood robot mockup)
Quotes
Bianca: It looks like a gravestone with a hat.
Will: Let's call it a blarg.
Tej: I know Tej said something but I don't remember what it was. Grr.... Someone else updating the wiki should fix this.
Day 4: 1/10/12
Today, we taught it obstacle avoidance and blogging [1].
Kept working in split up groups. Bianca and Will worked on CADding; Bianca mocked up the shooter in SolidWorks, Will worked on the acrylic portions of the chassis QCAD. Today/tomorrow, Bianca will take those files and convert them to SolidWorks files. Will also went to Edgerton training and made a draft ferris!
Tej and Ryan continued coding. And should probably update the wiki at some point.
Long and short of things: mechanical design is coming along and we'll hopefully have Charles done over this weekend. We have huge laggy issues with the software; Tej and Ryan are doing testing to determine where this issue might be and correct it.
Addition to the glossary:
Margaret: Pegbot (robot made with the pegboard)
