The shop was very busy tonight with lots of students. Many of the students present work and move forward in their progress while some others continue to seek out their position on the team.
David, Claude and David met to discuss some of the decisions of the weekend drive practice and team meeting. Decisions include:
- an arm operated with a motor for up and down control, a servo grabber control
- servos mounted on the corners for control of the MRT
- sliding door on the bucket controlled by a small motor and a pulley on the motor shaft
- bucket will be two inches taller
- use the golf ball/lazy susan caster
- data port reader will communicate through the servos
Several designs were discussed in how to make the data port reader interface with the data port. Lots of discussion around aluminum strips, clothes pins and the piano wire rolled into a wire spring.
Karen and Michael visited about the structure of the website. One focus of their discussion was on a biography feature of each teammate to possibly be included.
Michael and I visited about his work with the Anderson team on Monday night. We discussed the possibility of a student from our team going over to work with their programming team on the coming Saturday.
Jonny and Tim worked on reading the data port interface. Although we do not have the apparatus ready for the robot, Jonny has successfully demonstrated how to read the data and communicate it with a dial feature powered by a servo. I had to rain on his parade and inform him you could not utilize paint or decorations in conjunction with the dial for communications purposes.
Chris and Milo completed marking and cutting the layout of the new bucket. David and Sean glued the bucket and clamped before leaving for the night. David worked on the design for the servo mounts for the MRT.
The FTC team continues to work on their design each day.
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