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we traasheed the idea for the winch adnn just went with a wheel robot instead because it is easier and we are very behind compared 2 the other groups sso to get our grade and be over with it we took the lazy way out
despite this not being in the ENGINEER spirit, we are lazy and it's the last weeks of school. Summer is approaching.

disassembling the winchh

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It's monday again.

And you know what that means? The best blogger on EARTH coming at u with another update.
We have disassembled our robot and decided to do a heavy robot with no wheels and a double motor winch. Will this work? we have no idea. It is our job as professional engineers to find out and test it. This is all for fun, we don't care if we win or lose. QTBOYZ 4 LIFE

The Winch in action.

Improvised frame in its early stages

TODAY WE WILL GET TESTED FOR OUR GRADE: FINALLY.
I HAVENT HAD TEAMMATES FOR ABOUT 2 WEEKS SO I'VE JUST WORKED ALONE.
BUT TODAY I WILL FINALLY COMPLETE MY DESTINY.

I come from the future bearing gifts of solidworks
This week we will hopefully, finally, get the ball test done.

Look at that amazingly attractive arm with its basket attach to the end. Adorable. The motor is supposed to spin an axle that will pull the ball into a small basket. If we want it back out we just reverse the motor.

Goals for the week of 4/28

Testing for the challenge is pretty rough, especially since that driving isn't as easy when dropping balls compared to the last task. We each are getting the hang of driving day by day and should soon be ready to test. We are expecting to test sometime this week considering we have batteries THAT KEEP DYING ON US. Dying batteries to use with vex, challenge accepted.

Accomplished this week of 4/25

We are ready to do the next challenge after we figure out a couple bugs that seems to keep slowing us down today. We did find a unique solution to our arm not raising as much by putting our own custom counterweight to the back of it. Arm is working fine, although we took it off to make some quick design adjustments. All we need now is a set of fresh charged batteries and we should be good go.

END OF THE WEEK PROGRESS
After being out for 2 days we have fallen behind but now our robot is programmed and ready to do the test.
We got our motors working with a good counterweight.\