1. Increasing the coefficient of friction on our tread intake to maximize "grabbing power" for barrels and balls. To do this we covered our two tread lengths in adhesive backed VEX foam, "sewing" each together with a #32 rubber band and then weaving copious amounts of #32 rubber bands over the foam to attach it firmly to our tread system. We believe that this careful and inexpensive choice of materials will be a key to object manipulation for 1414.
2. Tying our two accumulator sides together into a single arm with a fixed intake width to cinsistently engage game pieces. We accoumplished this through the use of VEX threaded beams and cutting VEX metal to fit and fix our width. After 3 or so iterations, we're happy with these basic distances and will add some polycarbonate sheeting next meeting for rigidity and to ensure objects can't be dropped.
By meeting's end we were able to hand test the mechanism and we're very pleased thus far.. Look for more video and pics soon, but for now here's a few photos:
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