Total Recall - 4 weeks today

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We had to compete with ACL, SAT test and Westlake Marching Festival today for shop workers, but we made very good progress today.

Work competed today included the following:

• Grey completed the new wheels, although one blank was cut from the wrong size so he had to make a third wheel
• New door mount board so we will have room to mount the door motor
• Door pulley pieces drilled for mounting to each other
• Motor hub for small motor was completed
• Motor mount block was cut, drilled and mounted on the new door mount board
• Door was reassembled and remounted to the robot. 
• Door motor mounted with pulley completed (spindles were drilled for attachment to each other as well as attachment to the hub)
• Zip tie was attached to the spindle
• The attached video shows the motor mounted to the bucket but we will have to work on center of gravity since the door assembly has loaded up the weight on that end outside the large wheels.  This will create some concern for drivers to be aware of.  
• Grant completed the data port reader (sanded the fingers and attached the fingers to the base piece with the springs and wire loops)
• Jonny tested the data port reader (this design was first intended to be on a swivel but had to be modified because it was not consistent)
• The decision was made to mount the data port reader permanently to the deck - this proved to be very consistent as long as the driver continues to drive forward into the data port
• Jonny made the decision to change the button required to read the data port so it would be easier to do
• Jonny mounted the Cortex on the side of the bucket
• David, Sean B., Claude and Chris worked on the final design of the gadget grabber.  
• David cut the board mount for the front of the grabber
• Sean B worked on the standoffs for the grabber.  He got the motor hole drilled, all the shafts holes and mounted the Igus flange bearings

Discussions were held about what projects need to be completed on Monday.  They included microswitches for the door, mounting the zip tie to the door, grabber completion including pulley and shaft system.  Painting of the robot was also discussed.  

The display team met with Linda and Rebecca to make some final decisions.  They also looked at the PVC frame and cloth from lasts years display.  Late in the afternoon, Linda and Rebecca went shopping and searching for display materials. 

David W., David M., and Grey are going over to Tim Ousley's house on Sunday afternoon to work on the omni wheels design.  

Scott McMahon received a strange call from a team in Denton. The Texas Academy of Math and Science called asking him about how to make an arm as well as some programming help.  They did not realize that Scott lived in Austin.  Scott worked with Sean B to make a few videos explaining how our arm worked on our robot from last year.  Scott visited with Sean about how we would share these videos as well as some programming help to this team over this next week. 

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