Week 2 Day 4, August 29, 2018

Today, we were working on moving the motors for our robot so that each wheel can be moving smoothly. We decided to move two motors from their original spot to the two back wheels. Now, the two big back wheels will be powered directly from the motors. The other two motors will be attached to gears powering two wheels each. We're hoping to have the robot moving around by the end of the week.

Week 2 Day 3, August 27, 2018

Half our team put on most of the wheels and motors to the chassis of the bot on Friday and we finished today. The plan we had was to create the code and see if the design of the bot's chassis could go over the pipes and adjust both the bot and code as needed.  However we didn't charge the batteries so we could do what we wanted but by next time the batteries should be ready and we can test our ideas

Week 1 Day 2, August 23, 2018

     We have started to place our wheels onto the robot. We have settled upon six wheel drive and 4 motors. The back most wheels will have more torque to push itself forward onto the platforms.

Week 1 Day 1, August 21, 2018

     My team and I came up with the team name Budget Justice League. We started building a chassis for the robot. One of the ideas we had were having both a "forklift" kind of design for the claw that can lift the caps as well as flip them, and also having a "flywheel" mechanism to launch the balls into the flags. For now though those are only ideas, since we haven't finished with the chassis. My team and I will continue researching different potential designs as well as dwell deeper into the rules of the game.

Forklift Design

Flywheel Design