2010-2011 Robot

How Many Triangles Are There?

Pictures, Disassembly, Rebuild 9/28

Crate Flipper Idea

• A metal bar with a prong coming out in order to latch onto a crate and then rotate 180 degrees to turn it
• In order to lift the crate we could put it on treads and the treads could lift it upwards
• However, the treads might not be able to lift that much weight

Problems:

• We cant add too many connections to the treads also or else the device wont turn
• We could put the device on an extension form the robot such as a second arm
• Or we could just keep the device on the side of the robot and not consider stacking crates 

Wagon Sketches

Charlie M's rendition of a Rube Goldberg Machine. Poor Kitty.

Prototype Cars

Andrew L

Kyle C

Will R

Joel A

Ryan B

Ryan B

Robert M

Brain Storm Ideas For Our Design 9/21/11

Basic Design for the Robot:

• Cubic
• We would start by building a square base
• Then, we would build on top of the base

Today we found out what we will do in order to collect the balls, how we will lift the crates, how we will score, and how we will potentially move the bowling ball up the ramp.

Jordan's idea for picking up the racket balls. Kind of like a snow blower or paddle boat.

 Goals for next week: Take pictures of last years robot so we can make a 3D model of it. Break down last years robot, organize parts, and start rebuilding our new design. Make it modular (basic chassis design)  so in the up coming years we can easily disassemble, repair, or change the important features without having to start from the ground up.

Engineering Notebook

Here is where we will post our weekly meetings.