Update: Racquetball SolidWorks

Here is the SolidWorks of our robot while completing the racquetball challenges.

Week 8: Super days are messing up our schedule

This week, we haven't accomplished much due to super testing and and the Algebra II EOC. Tyler is done working on the SolidWorks for the racquetball challenge. These super testing days are really holding us back. Hopefully, after these super testing days, we will get back on track.  

Week 8: Super-Testing...again... and GMetrix

To start off this week, Tyler and I will be working on the SolidWorks for the Racquetball robot. Tyler is helping me out with some parts that had to get curved. Frank is not here today to continue the autonomous challenge. This week, we will lose 2 days of time because of super testing...again. Hopefully, we will work twice as hard and make up for those 2 days.

Week 7: Tetrahedron SolidWorks

To finish off this week,  we completed the SolidWorks Tetrahedron challenge. We are still currently working on the autonomous for the Racquetball challenge. I also started to work on the SolidWorks for the Racquetball robot. I had a bit of trouble trying to curve the parts. With those 2 super testing days, we lost 2 days of time that we could have used for this robot, but we will make up for it soon enough.

Week 7: Super-testing (Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay) and G-Metrix

So to start the week, Martin was out on Monday, which inevitably led to some kids hopping onto Halo. With the two days of super-testing also around the corner, making significant progress is probably wishful thinking. Frank plans to continue working on the autonomous challenge, and Roberto plans to finish the SolidWorks, including the new end effector we made for the racquetball challenge. I will be out most of this week, as I have states for band on Thursday. Good luck to those two. 

Update: SolidWorks #2 - Tetrahedron

Here's the SolidWorks for the robot after completing the tetrahedron challenges. 

Week 6: Racquetball Progress And SolidWorks

This week I was working on SolidWorks to create the robot design we used for the tetrahedron challenge. Frank was working on the autonomous racquetball challenge. In the middle of the week, I was in a pickle because I let Frank borrow my USB drive and he forgot to return it. Frank had to do multiple trials to do the racquetball challenge. After a dozen tries, he finally got the the ball to the drop off zone.

Week 6: SolidWorks and Autonomous Racquetballs. Tyler gone fishin'

For this week, the team plans on having both the SolidWorks and the autonomous racquetball challenge done. After that, we'll be able to move on to the final "challenge" of the year, Tug of War. I won't be able to work on either of this week's objectives, as Martin said he's been doing too much =( . I'll be working on other projects. The team has plenty of time to finish though, as we are farther than the rest of the groups in class. 

Week 5: Controlled RacquetBall Challenge Completed

This week was another successful week.  We went through many designs for the racquetball challenge.  The racquetball challenge is when we control the robot to pick a blue rubber ball and drop it in a pvc pipe (see images below). The KrustyBot2000 went through some modifications, but got the job done.  This entire week was trial and error, experimenting with different end effectors for the arm to efficiently pick up the ball and dropping it.  In the end, we decided to go with a Gear-basket-holder end effector (see images below). Throughout the week, we also helped out the other teams. Roberto should be done with the SolidWorks by the end of next week. The next task we have is to complete the racquetball challenge autonomously. 

Week 5: Racquetballs And End Effectors

This week, we plan to start building for the Racquetball challenge, both autonomous and controlled. A few different ideas were thrown around, with Frank trying to use the claw from the original clawbot. We also thought of using a bent piece of flat metal that can squeeze in the ball to pick it up, then have an axle spin to drop the ball out into the ''box''. We plan to have at least the controlled part done this week. We also plan to have the new SolidWorks finished, including the arm and end effector from the tetrahedron challenge, then the new effector. 

Update: SolidWorks

Because of the sub-par quality of the images included in the slideshow, here are the original SolidWorks pictures of the robot, as requested by Martin. 

Week 4: Tetrahedron Done, Time For Racquetballs

This week we have finished our tetrahedron challenge.  We successfully built an arm on our KurstyBot2000 for the challenge.  After we finished the controlled tetrahedron challenge, we then had to do it autonomously.  We came out victorious.  Team Enigma has no limits.  We also helped many people on various other teams. Next week, we will begin updating the SolidWorks to the robot.