March 22nd: Robotics Meeting

Today was pretty busy.

First, we re-wired the robot to account for future rearrangement and systems, namely our deep cage mechanism. I focused a bit on cadding more things. Interestingly enough, after continuing to do more CAD, I've grown a bit of a liking to it. I like seeing what I make come to life and I think I'm executing my ideas quite well.

The intake seems to be done, just waiting on the gearbox we want so that our motor for our roller wheels will be less susceptible to algae hitting it. There's also more work being done on our algae cannon.

We also did some drive practice today. Or, rather, we rolled out the rug, got some people to calculate the placement of things while programming tried to figure out why the same motor that had begun to fail on us but suddenly start working, began to fail again. The lesson learned was that if a motor ever fails never trust it again.

I really need to stop sleeping on the couch!

Thanks for reading,
Issac