Team Six/Journal
Day 1 (01/07/2013)
Today was a glorious day for the People's Republic of Team Sechs. We started out by waking up at some god-forsaken hour to go to our initial meeting, where Darthur explained the rules for people who were not paying attention last time. Like most of us. A few questions were explained.
Our previous meeting came before break, and had a nice solid discussion on ideas for mechanical and code design of our robot. Ideas that were tossed out include: Mechanums and omni-wheel drive systems (3 and 4 wheel design), Using an S-shaped roller mechanism for picking up and scoring balls, strategy of dumping every single ball humanly possible over the yellow wall to mess up the other guy while optimizing our synergistic ground-state six sigma endeavorships, discussing the various scoring method and determining that launching the balls as fast as possible into the audience was the best scoring method, and other stuff I can't remember.
We talked about our own special talents and how we're all special snowflakes, and Fred mentioned his superior machining skillz, Steven his talents as the Robot Whisperer, and William and Harry's limitless devotion and enthusiasm that they would fully give to the team, dying selflessly for the robot if they had to.
Various team names were also discussed, including Team Teta Football Club United (TetaFCU) and Team T-9.
We decided on team name T-9. It's obviously the best.
We spent most of our lab time trying to put together a piece of densely-corrugated cardboard with some bolts and some funny pieces of metal sticking out of it. After spending too much time putting the shiny pieces of metal next to each other next to other, shinier pieces of metal and really hot shiny pieces of metal, we had a giant rats nest. The battery caused a great deal of stress as it bent the cardboard severely at the halfway point, but it never failed. After too many hours of tinkering with the wiring, we pushed a button and the wheels spun. We were the fifth team to get this far. Go us. Yay.
After the wheels started spinning, we had a short meeting to discuss some of our previous ideas for a final robot design. We all agreed on a general strategy and mechanism for scoring, but on later review by Fred and Steven, we decided that our mechanism was too good and we needed a crappier one. Fred claimed that he would do some of the CAD work, but I think he's a liar. We'll pitch the new, less complicated mechanism to the rest of the team tomorrow.
Day 2 (01/08/2013)
Today started with slanderous lies coming from Arthur Pentron, saying that he didn't see any journal entries on the wiki. CAN YOU SEE IT NOW DARTHUR? HUH? CAN YOU?!?!?
William figured out how to do wiki headers, which is pretty fantastic. He's some sort of wizard, unlike that Harry dude. It appears that my team has also taken notice that I'm even bothering to fill out our journal entries. Someone has betrayed my trust, and my cover is now blown.
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Now I'm also bothering to fill out our journal entries. Fred totally showed me the antigravity conveyor belt even though I went to sleep last night instead of drinking beer and playing SolidWorks with him. My keyboard is also getting pretty gross. Maybe I'll go to the bathroom during the break and squirt a bunch of hand sanitizer on some paper towels and clean it.
