Its the end of week three. Uh thats kind of scary. If bag day was a thing we would be half way to it already. I just checked my anxiety inducing first event count down, and it says we have 46 days until our first event. I’m not sure why I created that count down,…

CAD Progress is being made on the intake and climber. I think the climber is mostly done for now until we add a high plus traversal mechanism. The intake got shifted to the inside rail and work continues refining it. There are a few small low hanging improvements that need to get made then it…

The pace is starting to go faster, we might be finding our groove. Its now a balancing act to keep every one busy, engaged and productive with out overworking anyone. Its only week three we can’t have any one burn out now. Sunday meetings got brought up but I’ve successfully pushed them back until March…

CAD We set a deadline of having CAD complete version one by the end of week four. Our wooden prototype parts did not get cut on the router before the meeting so that set us behind. We weren’t able to assemble any of the prototypes. Not great, it doesn’t help our schedule. Sometimes tasks just…

Today was a very busy day. Unlike last Saturday we had almost everyone on the team show up, and to top it off I think every one was busy for the entire time! Now we just need to keep the momentum going into next week. Programming We had an interesting problem in programming today, we…

Manufacturing The students today were very productive. The students working to assemble the kit bot drive base got some additional wheels on. It looks like one side is finished. Although I was talking to they asked what the best way to keep a bearing in was. That confused me, it turns out that they put…

Manufacturing Manufacturing was in full swing today. Our students were busy making the 8 drive rails for two robots. Students were also working on the shafts required for the drive base. Another student managed to make four of the required gear box plates we need. There was a lot of learning going on while making…

Oh hey its day 11… checks the schedule… Yup we are behind! I think the biggest set back was Saturdays miss of a meeting. I’ll be talking with a few mentors and rearranging volunteer schedules so that we can still make progress on Saturday and hopefully get a robot built this year. CAD Today was…

Today was a slow day. As I mentioned earlier we were hosting a vex tournament today. That prevented most of our students from being able to help out. I’m not sure why we are hosting tournaments on Saturdays during build season. We have a FLL and another vex tournament in the next month. We are…

CAD Today was a productive day. Work started on bumper mounting, and brain pan placement. A brain pan is where you have the belly pan of the robot on top of the 2×1 frame rails and the space underneath becomes where you put all of your electronics. Prototyping continued today, the intake prototype moved under…