Team Three/Journal

Revision as of 20:27, 8 January 2014

Day 1: Mon, Jan 6th

Team Roles: MechE - Vincent, Kath, Melody

Coding - Angel, Matt

For our first day, we built the Kit Bot out of the parts given in the lab so that our coders could begin playing with the software.

Our team started meeting over winter break to get a head start because most of us have other IAP obligations (mainly, UPOP and UROPs). We started bandying ideas around after looking through past wiki's, and CADed half of the robot. We ordered some supplies over break (and asked Ariel a lot of questions), but are still missing some.

Currently, we plan to finish CADing today. We also need to get MDF for the body of our robot ASAP, once we find a way to get to Home Depot...

Day 2: Tues, Jan 7th

When working on getting the Kit Bot to move today, we discovered that the set screw in the Kit Bot's hub was loosened. Unfortunately, the wiring was reversed so the bot drove the other way from intended.

Unfortunately, we haven't yet finished CADing our robot, but we're hoping to be able to start prototyping parts tomorrow if supplies come in :) (Namely, the rubber band roller, ramp, and anything else we have time for.)

Melody and Kath attended the SolidWorks tutorial, while Vincent got trained in laser cutting. We've signed up to get further shop and laser cutter-trained tomorrow.

Later in the night, we got the color sensor to work with the Arduino. However, we ran into problems using the Maple for the color sensor since the method pulseIn was implemented for the Arudino, but not the Maple.

In the meanwhile, the tablet got flung a couple of times since there were issues with the motor controller...