We had our weekly team meeting tonight. Students began coming into the shop after school but the team meeting was not until 6:30. Work was done in the following areas: front wheel caster, bucket for gadgets, painting golf balls, website, community team, display and more CAD.
Several students continue to complete lessons in SolidWorks. The use of the printed lessons in the "CAD bible" has proven to be very beneficial. This provides a method for the students to work at their own pace through the lessons and learn the software. Grey has continued to show great interest in the use of the program. He has been taking a SolidWorks computer home in the evenings to work on the design of the omniwheels. Claude has a robot design with drive wheels, bucket and arm completed.
Sean and Lauren work on the design of the display, more specifically the golden egg apparatus and marble sorter. Sean has completed a bill of materials for the display.
At the team meeting, David presented Basecamp to the team. It is our project management software for team. Basecamp had donated the service to the team to implement. Jonny had populated his programming team information in the program, so David used this as an example for the team to see. Michelle and Karen spoke to the team about the importance of daily updates on progress and goals for each subteam. Leaders are responsible for making sure these updates occur.
Joe, Michael and Rebecca were able to make the meeting tonight along with Scott and Linda. We had 43 students in attendance for the meeting and a few others who came in to work after school but could not stay for the meeting. Next week Scott will be presenting Sensors for FIRST Robotics.
Drive practice is less than 5 days away but no driving robot at this point. The team is close to putting the drive base together though. Drive wheels and hubs are completed, while we continue to work on the chassis, motor mounts and front wheel caster. Hopefully we will get those completed on Tuesday.
We received notification from National Instruments that our LabVIEW for Education has been FEDEX'ed to us. It is a classroom install of 25 seats for the team and class. We will move to LabVIEW in Robotics I very soon. In addition, I continue to see how we can resolve the SolidWorks software issues.
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