Arm Conclusion

Arm Conclusion

4/24/15

My partners and I decided to focus on finishing and further improving the arm. We built our first model or rough draft at the beginning of the week and later ran various tests with it. When we discovered the issues, such as the speed of the arm, the endo-factors ability to pick up the tetrahedrons, and figuring out how to counter balance the entire square-bot so it wouldn't tip over, we  knew we would have to recreate the arm entirely. We have now finished what we think is our final design today, after various sets of testing we will begin to focus once again on the autonomous portion of the challenge.

Programming arm

Programming the arm

4-20-15

We returned today committed to the idea of building, mounting, and programming the arm. after fixing and making changes in the former arm, we got a binder and began to programming the arm to the remote. After we program the arm we will go back and once again try to program autonomous. we are still having issues with concluding the autonomous route and many people who usually help us are not present today and we do not fully comprehend the instructions with the binder. If we can program the arm and autonomous by the end of the week my group and I are still able to keep on track and begin with the tetrahedron challenge.

New Rebuilt Square Bot

Beginning this week I started fixing the square bot. I took the battery and held it down with wire tape. Also fix the wires so they don't hang out and hit the ground.

New Rebuilt square bot

Anonymous Week continued

Beginning Autonomous

4-6-2015

This week my group and I have begun the autonomous project assigned by Mr.Martin. We began today by reading through the "programming" section within the VEX binder to fully educate ourselves of how to properly program our square-bot. We've previously tried programming in the past and are expecting to run into difficulties again. In the case that this occurs I could ask a classmate to assist us and help us through the process. We are gradually catching up to the other groups and have made significant progress in the past couple weeks. We predict to be caught up by sometime next week.

Programming Continued

4/2/2015

My group and I are still struggling getting the hang of programming our Square-bot. My partner Dylan and I have read through the programming section within the binder but still seem to be confused. Thankfully, another individual from another group was kind enough to help us in order to proceed to successfully connect the brain of the bot to the remote controller. We predict that by next week we will begin the autonomous for our Square-bot.