I was out sick for a week, so this will be a summary update for Week 6
Intake Changes
Mike has been on a tear coming up with new intake concepts lately. The direction has changed a few times, but the new settled course is that we are setting the 111 French Fry intake aside, and bringing back the Pinball Wizard from a few weeks ago. Because we have a wrist now, we think can attack game pieces at a downwards angle, reacting against the floor to help keep the game piece stable enough to intake.
We will be testing the Pinball Wizard again this weekend to see if it can fill our needs. One downside of this design is that the rollers spin perpendicular to the wrist, so we can't power it from the base of the carriage like the Everybot intake (below).
We will be testing the Pinball Wizard again this weekend to see if it can fill our needs. One downside of this design is that the rollers spin perpendicular to the wrist, so we can't power it from the base of the carriage like the Everybot intake (below).
Comp Build
Comp is almost completely assembled. This is still missing the climb forks (about a pound) and a 7 pound steel bellypan that we had cut at Fabworks by our friends at 4414. The Rev 3 Everybot intake is also 2 pounds lighter than the Rev 2. With all that, we should still be weighing in at just around 90 pounds. We should still be fast, light, and low!
First Autos
Now that Beta is working well enough to score points, we're finally making some autos. First up is a single game piece and balance. We're able to do this consistently.
Drive Practice
With Beta's intake working unreliably and Software Robot programming autos (and with Yi being both the head of Software Robot and the driver 🙃), there has been very drive practice done this week. The log sheet for our short cycles at least includes cones now.