That’s how most of us spent our short but long week in the shop. With finals and an unfound snow scare, we were only able to meet on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. With a half day as well as a day off, the most dedicated among us spent over twenty hours in the shop.
In those twenty hours, we got more than a week’s worth of work done. The pitching wheel team (ie Brian) restarted their prototype, even better than the original. Not only powerful with its double wheel on one side, it is consistent as well. Here’s what we got working on Friday morning:
While the pitcher team worked on their prototype, the mechanical department got to work on machining parts for the chassis while the CAD team worked on the CAD for the pitcher, incorporating ideas from the prototype. We got an assembly line of sorts running, as part drawings passed from “station” to “station.” If we keep up the pace, and hopefully avoid mistakes, we should be able to finish two robots right on schedule. The field elements team finally completed the backboards and plans to start the bridge next week.
Software also kept itself busy, even without a robot to test on. Shivani finally got the Classmate and the cRIO re-imaged and updated after countless troubles. John and Ananth have been hard at work getting vision targeting to work for auto-aiming.
As for myself, I’ve dedicated myself to perfecting the website. The homepage got a slight makeover and now includes rankings for the five people who have spent the most time in the shop. We’re all hoping the friendly competition doesn’t become unfriendly.
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