Last session of the year. That's actually fine. The real season begins on 8 January, everything we've done in Spring, Summer and Fall sessions has been prep and training. Lets see....where to start....
We had the swerve drive working for a while.... ZIPPPP!!!!
But tonight a nasty grinding noise was heard from one of the modules. As they used to say on Mythbusters: "Well there's your problem".
A bolt had vibrated loose, rattled up into the gears and ripped one apart. These motors are powerful. The solution of course is:
Here the work crew has it flipped and the modules in various states of dis and re assembly.
At this point we are not sure we'd try to use this in a competitive situation, much depends on the nature of the game. And that we find out next month.
Various other tasks are also ongoing. T shirt design, grant writing, game strategizing. Oh, and a newly refurbished robot cart. Looks good now, just wait until we get our custom cut team logo aluminum top for it!
Now that will be sweet.
Time off for the holidays. Then a single meeting in the first week back to school followed by Kickoff on 8 January. We are not ready. But nobody else is either so we should be in good competitive shape.
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