Team Fourteen/Journal
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Day 1
Productive things: shop training completed. Not so productive things: trying to get maple to work
Day 2
Got maple to run a program. *round of high fives* The problem was that we couldn't change the serial port, because maple was not being recognized by the tablet. Useful link here if you're having trouble: http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=73#post-788. Completed most of the wiring for the kitbot. Later in the evening the whole team attended the solidworks workshop.
Day 3
Completed wiring for kitbot and got started on some solidworks sketches. Sent in models for motor hub and some sensor. However, later in the day maple stopped responding to the tablet. Ubuntu was installed. Still no response. Nchinda stayed up very late.
We can 3d print stuff accurately, Yay. Ask if you need help.
Day 4
Started using assembly to put together kitbot on solidworks. Then a tentative robot base was created out of MDF using the laser cutter.
Huzzah maple is fixed, and we were able to make the motors move. Bad wiring was part of the problem. We can communicate using eclipse/java code but we can't download code using maple ide on any OS (Win, Ubu, Mac). John (supervisor guy) can though which is strange as heck.
Beginning to use MaslabGL for image processing.
Day 5
Supports for the top part of robot were laser-cut, but not put together since we were waiting on brackets.
Day 5.5 (Sunday 1/12)
Brackets have arrived! So the robot was put together. However, a noticeable amount of play means we will need to epoxy the hell out of this bad boy. A decision was made to go for an archimedes screw instead of a a pulley. Apparently there will only be one ball size in use too, that makes this easier.
