One week has gone by since Kickoff for Total Recall. Progress continued not only on the robot design but in regards to some other areas as well. We had students working on many different aspects of the contest today but still have many things to be nailed down at this point. Progress was made in the following areas: programming, robot piece design, game field pieces made, website, Solidworks and robot construction.
Programming
Jonny and Robert worked with Scott. The team worked on a debounce feature which could implemented with the data port reading and relay of information. Jonny did a very good job in working with and explaining to Robert what they were attempting to do. Student mentorship is so important I believe in the success of our program. Jonny also visited with design teams in regards to how programming would be involved with their designs.
Robot Design
Students divided up into groups to work on systems of the robot. We started out with the day with four different groups focusing on one specific aspect of the robot. Each group worked on cardboard prototypes that were to 1:1 scale. Several different iterations of each design were worked on and evaluated by each individual group. Presentations were made at the end of the day by each group. They demonstrated their prototypes to the team. Team members offered feedback about the designs for clarification as well as ways to possibly improve the design. Progress was made in eliminating some designs but final decisions still need to be made on several of the features.
Game Field
Lauren and Michelle worked on the MRT construction while Sean R worked on the MPC. Each group will complete their piece construction on Monday. Tim Jordan worked on the calculations of the Scanning Tube since some of the dimensions do not seem to be correct. The official Q and A has stated that an updated copy of the dimensions will be available soon. The pipe and fitting were purchased for the Scanning tube to be manufactured.
Website
The website team met with Linda and Rebecca today to begin to work on the structure of the site. They discussed the evaluation rubric for the contest as well as did some work on looking at some other designs. Assignments were decided upon to begin the initial creation of content for the site.
SolidWorks and Robot Construction
Several students worked on SolidWorks of robot parts as well as working on tutorials. Manuel worked with Grey on the SolidWorks File of the large motor. They were were working on the beginning of the motor mount. David demonstrated making a drawing, printing, cutting and milling a block.
Good progress was made for the first week of Total Recall. A few of the systems are in the process of refinement while others still remain to be worked out.
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