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Team Members

• Deron Browne - Course 2 MIT '16
• Revanth Damerla - Course 2 MIT '18
• Phillip Graham - Course 6-3 MIT '17
• Eric Ruleman - Course 6-? MIT '16

Day 1

MechE Brainstorm. Came up with several ideas & decided on a v-collector with powered wheels + a grabber that can slide vertically to stack. Sketched out basic idea.

Day 2

Started CAD. Ordered 3 packs of springs from McMaster’s ($7.26 each + tax and shipping)

Day 3

All:

1. Scoring Strategy/Robot Scoring Problems
2. Robot Design Critique

EECS

Today:

1. Battery ­ 4.2V
2. Soldered fuse box and switch

Tomorrow:

1. Run a program on Teensy.
2. Get Blink running with communication between tablet and Teensy using TAMP.

MechE

Today

1. Prototype of wheels.
2. Finished Kitbot
3. Raventh is halfway through grabber.

Tonight: CAD the robot.

Tomorrow:

1. Laser cut the CAD.
2. Finish the prototype of the wheels and the grabber.

Day 4

MechE

Today: Started on an assembly of robot: Bottom, braces, part of the column done (waiting on the grabber to be completed) Removed active collector (until we decide it’s necessary) Grabber finished

Tonight: Work on tower/column/tube done except for back door; Revanth working on back door Finish CAD (we’ll try XD) need to CAD upper level for electronics, grabber completed

Tomorrow: Laser cut and assemble CAD parts Finish back door Finish electronics level

EECS

Today: Loaded firmware onto teensy and pyhost onto tablet Installed OpenCV onto Macbooks, but we still haven’t gotten a program to run.

Tonight: Phillip is going to install OpenCV on the tablet. We will try to run something.

Tomorrow: Playing with the webcam on OpenCV. Hopefully we can do it with the tablet.