Monday, April 28, 2014

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.

Friday, April 25, 2014

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.\


Monday, April 21, 2014

Starting the Balla' Arm

Alright, with this new week we need to finish our new arm, also I have this old solidworks we forgot to post for the tetrahedron arm.
 HD shine
Here's to us not failing.
We're having trouble getting the arm to stay up and the motor keeps copping out after the first lift so we need to fix that.

Thursday, April 17, 2014


We're actually only slightly behind today. May lose the first days amount of points but we're waiting for paul to share his motor with us so we can lift our arm. We may actually get a semi-complete grade for this one.
 THE HEAVYLY QTBOYZ ROBOT OF TRUTH
AND JUSTICE
THE NERDY HELLISH TETRICS ROBOT

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Our robotics team has been behind for the entire time due to our bad parts.
But for once in our robotics career, we're not very behind at all.
>SARCASM WE'RE SUPER BEHIND.


Friday, April 11, 2014

QTBOYZ conquered the MOUNTAIN of tetrahedrons and got their 80% grade.
Now we're starting work on picking up our balls
We're running into torque problems but we can muscle through with some GOOD OLD FASHIONED ENGINEER THINKING.