Saturday, September 22, 2012

Meeting of 9-22-2012

Scissor
We are nearing the Dover Air Force base competition, so everything Vex is in overdrive. The scissor lift bot is up and running. We routed all of the PWM cable through the frame, adjusted the code to accommodate the physical changes. A drastic change done to the bot in the past couple of weeks was the spatula has been upgraded to have an active intake. After a few trial runs, we found that the intake was not intaking as much as we would have hoped. To fix this, we began work on way to allow for the intake to adjust its height to allow more sacks.
Things to note / updates quick list
  • active intake
  • side walls
  • new spatula arm
  • thinner tray w/o spaces
  • smaller frame
Things to be done before competition
  • add a back wall
  • finish intake
  • finish engineering notebook
Spatula
The main thing being done is coding. Only small physical changes have occurred.