One hour weekly meetings are flying by, but are productive. To those who have sent all the positive feedback, thanks! As promised, but a little late, robot specs:
Drivetrain - 5 motor eight omni wheel drive. 4 motors driving 4 of six forward facing wheels with tank style control and one motor driving two middle sideways wheels controlled by joystick buttons.
Arm - 4 motor surgical tubing lift assist arm with a 60:12 (5:1) single-stage high strength gear reduction. Y cables allow two channels to power all four motors. Enough torque, rather quick, and shared load across motors with the surgical tubing help make it easy to operate smoothly. Hard stops prevent arm from extending CoG to robot tipping point.
Accumulator - 3 object capacity, 2 motor powered tank tread covered with VEX foam intake. Foam held in place by adhesive backing and woven #32 rubber bands. Polycarbonate "sandwiches" objects securely and allows for flexible hold on different sized objects. "Soft stop" keeps objects from falling out the accumulator top.
Accomplishments during these two meetings:
We've gotten in a little driver practice - mostly in the isolation zone, decided as a team to specialize jobs at the Nov event, divided up jobs, started developing a scouting information sheet, talked over tournament structure, and have an autonomous programming template built from a sample that will allow us to program our four desired autonomous programs. The team is handling things in a very upbeat and professional manner and we're excited to watch things come into place.
Our goal between now and the Nov 19th event is simple - be as prepared as humanly possible in order to maximize the chances of success.
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