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Men·ace -
menəs/
noun
a person or thing that is likely to cause harm; a threat or danger.

Monday, October 31, 2016

Week 10: Monday: New Day

Today starts off a new quarter!! Also today our teacher presented us with a new challenge and it will be due November 16. As of right now we are finding a way to make our robot more stronger and faster so that we can get a better grade than in the last challenge.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Week 9: Friday: It's over








So the quarter is finished! We managed to survive the first quarter with flying colors and submit our solidworks views but it was a few days late so it wasn't a 100%. Also today is a early release so it has been a pretty good week.

Monday, October 24, 2016

Week 9: Monday: The Rush for Grades

We are a little late with our Solid Works and our practice competition. This is not okay. On the plus side, we have managed to go through three different robot versions. Third time is the charm! Our goals for this week will be to get The Menace out on the field.  Our code for our robot works perfectly and is completed. The Solid Works drawings of our robot have been finished and executed meticulously. As first quarter ends, the pressure and stress pile on, and as a team we need to stay calm and focused, even if we are looking like we are not going to make it. I have seen my team mates have begun to get anxious. We will consider the use of rubber-bands for our robot and changing our gearing for our drive train. We are set on high gear and need to finish everything before the deadline. Below is the rendering of where we decided to place our cortex and battery;




Friday, October 21, 2016

Week 8: Friday: Almost there

This week was a tough weeek! We started from scratch on Monday and today Friday we have everything but the coding. We have not done the challenge yet for the robot but most likely by the end of the day we might have finished the challenge hopefully.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Week 8: Wednesday: The Bane of Our Existence (Still Fun!)

We are super proud that we took on the challenge to do the Third version of our robot. Yes, we went through three trial and error versions. We have not even gotten to putting the robot into practice for the competition.  This took more than 30 hours to work on.  You can see the attention to most detail of the detail taken to draw this version. The metal was flexed to create a hinge like mechanism, a problem finally solved for our "end effector". You can see this clearly in the top view. Here are the renderings;  We recommend opening the pictures in a new tab by right clicking on the picture and selecting "open link in new tab"  and finally press and hold the control and + keys to zoom in.







Monday, October 17, 2016

Week 8: Monday: Restart

This week our prototype of the bot is due and my team disassembled the robot because there was something wrong with the old design. So today we are on a fast pace and wiring and designing it all over again as if was week 1 once again

Friday, October 14, 2016

Week 7: Friday:Due Over

My team has destroyed the old design completely causing us to come up with a new one. As of right now we are thinking of a new design and rebuilding our robot. 

Monday, October 10, 2016

Week 7: Monday: Working hard


This week we are playing no games at all!! Our teacher said that our robots prototype is due by next week on Wednesday and we haven't gotten our arm on the robot yet. So we have no time to waste cause if we do we might fail the assignment. 

Friday, October 7, 2016

Week 6: Friday: Hurricane

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We had a hurricane coming towards Florida so we have no school for Thursday and Friday

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Week 6: Monday: The Comeback


This week we are on the comeback!! We have our arm design built, motors running perfectly, and starting off a good week. Today we are just fixing a little flaws in our bot, but other than that we just have to attach the arm and program it to work. Also we are racing against the clock because our teacher told us we are going to dry run the competition next week or the following week.