Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff We skipped a few blogs. Day 60: We packed the trailer with our stuff Day 61: We brought the trailer and the students to Duluth Scouting We used today to get a more general overview of all of the competing teams. We started this with…
Day 59 – Final Duluth Preparations (3/2/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Most of today was spent on final preparations for Duluth. Tomorrow, we will only be meeting until 5:30 due to the presidential primary, so we aimed to finish all major robot changes by today. The mandatory Duluth travel meeting was also today (from 7 to…
Day 58 – ???? Comp Bot Works (3/1/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Above: A pic of the comp bot shooting from the initiation line Things that work on the comp bot Wheel of fortune Flywheel shooter Intake Hopper Drivetrain Everything that we tested works quite well. We ran into a small issue with the hopper where one…
Day 57 – Testing in the Commons (2/29/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff, Wheel of Fortune The wheel of fortune mechanism was finished for our practice bot. This mechanism was designed to be actuated by a cylinder so the robot could remain able to go underneath the trench. Another similar copy will be fabricated for the comp bot…
Day 56: Comp Bot Assembly 10 – RSTLNE (2/28/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra Wheel of Fortune Today, breakthrough progress was made on the wheel of fortune spinner. We briefly attached it to the robot in its desired location, and confirmed that it will be able to spin the wheel of fortune. Afterwards, we took it off of the robot and…
Day 55: Comp Bot Assembly 9 – Journey to Belt-land (2/27/2020)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra This is a picture of the robot. A lot of electronics and bumper-related tasks still need to be done, but most of the mechanical stuff is almost completely assembled/installed. Things that are done All belts are installed Intake, Hopper, Shooter are ready for electronics Things…
Day 54: Comp Bot Assembly 8 – The Big Belt Package (2/26/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra Belts Today, we finally got our shipment from SDP/SI. If we had not contacted them about our belt shipment, it would have arrived in April, which is a ways away. Anyways, now that we have our belts, we installed as many as we could onto the comp…
Day 55: Comp Bot Assembly 7 – Blocked by the Caucus (02/25/2020)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Today was a short day because there was a caucus for local Eden Prairie officials, and we are not allowed to have robotics from 6 to 8 on election days. As a result, robotics was only from 3 to 5:30. Nevertheless, we were able to…
Day 52 – Comp Bot Assembly 6: Bumpers (5/24/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Bumpers Today, the comp bot bumpers were covered with fabric. They are almost complete. The remaining tasks are to Cut and apply numbers (in progress) Make and install bottom brackets (in progress) Make and install top brackets (not yet started) Also, for the first time,…
Day 51 – Spark Says: Your KF is negative eight billion (2/23/2020)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Roller Omnis Throughout our testing, we found that the third intake roller bar did not consistently get balls into the hopper. Often times, balls would get stuck between the airpods and the roller. To fix this, we experimented with replacing the third roller bar (1.7”…