Final Robot Picture

6/2

We deconstructed our super awesome robot. We than placed all of the expensive parts back in the toolbox. Than Brandon's backpack and lunch box got "nuggeted"

Super Awesome Calculations that were worth the wait

T=Torque
F=M*a
r=distance to center of gravity
θ=angle between the lever arm and the force
V=Velocity

T=F*r*sin(θ)
T=19 oz in of torque

Awesome*(John+Kyle)=Super Awesome engineering

V=(circumference)(RPM)
V=1,884 in/min

6/1

Twas a fine Wednesday when the super awesome robot moved for an extended period of time. It even scored nine points in one round against Brandon Hoshaw's robot. However it was still not perfect as the back wheels spun on the axles and the super awesome hook device had to transform into a super awesome pushing device. Thus much hot glue was added and a plow was added. We finished with 13 points making us the winners.

5/31

On the most awesome Tuesday in recent history it was decided that we should make some major changes to our super awesome robot. This was after one side of our gear box decided to be extremely unawesome and stop turning. This burned out the motor and made us change our philosophy in super awesome robot construction. We decided to use less wood. Mr. Podmers was very safe and careful while cutting off the back half of our robot. Kyle stayed late with Mr. Podmers to place a different gear box on our robot. To do so our super awesome pusher contraption had to be removed. It than moved.

5/27

On friday we finished up taking our gearbox apart, changing it to a new better gear ratio, and puting in back together on our robot. We plan on being ready for the next match on Tuesday where we can finally unleash our robot's awesomeness.

5/26

On Thursday we discovered we needed to redo our gearbox. Due to some not-super planning again the box was sodered together with the wheel axels. It took the whole hour to unscrew all the screws on the gear box while it was still attached to the robot. We also had to forfeit two matches, because our robot was not ready, which has was definitly not awesome.

5/25

On Wednesday when the servos were attached to the wireless transmitter the servos started to go crazy. Thus the battery was unplugged and trouble shooting occurred. It was than found out that the calculation for torque was slightly off. Also the hot glue did not do the best job holing the axles to the wheels so they were attached with jb weld. It was a day lacking awesomeness.

5/24

Our super awesome group was at Valley Fair celebrating Kyle's 18th birthday in a school appropriate way. Not much engineering occurred.

5/23

On Monday the entire class went over the rules and cleared up some issues. All groups except our super awesome group said that they were finished and needed no additional preparation time. Two of those groups were full of "it" and were not done until the super group was done. To finish up our robot we added a counter weight to the eyelet end of our hook, flip and lift contraption. Also we replaced our propeller that some really mature kids broke off when they added two random pieces of wood to the back. We also extended that part to the maximum allowable limit, drilled a hole in it and tied the strings together through the hole. We weighed in at 4 pounds 1 ounce 12 inches in height 16 in length and 9 in width.

5/20

On T.G.I.F. we worked feverishly to to attach two strings to the super hook and lift contraption. We also glued on our servo that the strings will wrap around to manipulate the height of the super hook, flip and lift contraption. Additionally we places some sheet aluminum to the top of the wood enabling the string to glide more easily. Also an eyelet and staple were added to keep the strings on track. Also a fourth hole was drilled for the strings to travel through. Finally a propeller was added to the top of the height of the hook, flip and lift contraption height manipulator. It was kinda awesome.

5/19

On Thursday we drilled some pretty awesome holes and inserted a wooden dowel in each to make our lifting system. We than proceeded to construct the lifter part by filling one end with hot glue than inserting an eyelet screw into the hot glue. Another eyelet was securely attached to the other end with super duper glue, this made a hook thing. The first eyelet was put through the dowel.

5/18

On Wednesday we made several minor tweeks to make our robot even awesomer. We then brainstromed the smartest methods to build the lift part of our robot. We decided to use a sanded down wooden rod to run the lift oon and two other poles to guide it.

5/17

On tuesday we finished our "forklift" contraption on our super robot. We used a servo to pull a string that would straighten two peices of wood on a hindge. This would push the forklift part upright putting it into super ready mode.

5/16

On Monday we started building the servo device that would tilt up our awesome "forklift" part of our awesome robot.

5/13

On Friday one of the group members was skipping (*cough*Kyle). In spite of that not awesome move work was completed. The top piece was replaced with the correct sized one. Also that part that was then awesome fit perfectly and was bolted to the solid frame. It was kind of unproductive since the group was only at 75% since Kyle was gone.

5/12

On thursday we began to construct the awesome top part of our "forklift". Due to a small error made by one of the group members (*cough* john) the part was alittle too wide to fit on the rest of our super awesome robot.

5/11

On wednesday we finished our awesome push part of our "forklift". We also added a sanded down wood part to the front so that it could pick up both the large and small tubes.

5/10

On tuesday we had some reglueing to do because one of our servos was looking least then super awesome. We also began our designs for the bottom part our our "forklift" thing.

5/9

Kyle and I were asking for lipstick while taking the AP Physics exam on Monday. No super awesome engineering occured.

5/6

Friday was a super awesomely productive day. We attached super grippy stuff to the wheels to increase the coefficent of friction adding traction. Additionally we added velcro to the speed controls and the battery. Finally we began construction of the disk pusher thing.

5/5

On thursday we finally got our wheels cut thinner so our awesome robot would be in width regulations. We glued all four onto our robot and made sure the gears in our gearbox were super duper tight.

5/4

Once again both of the awesome group members were gone due to AP tests.

5/3

On tuesday we planned how to add traction to our wheels. We couldnt yet add the wheels to our super awesome robot because Mr. P was not there to cut our wheels down to size.

5/2

Both awesome group members were talking the AP Psych exam so no progress was made.

4/29

On friday we attached the two wood side sections to our awesome robot.(See below) After close measurment we found out that our robot is 1/2 an inch to long width-wise. We plan on cutting 1/4 of an inch off all four of our wheels.

Who are we better than?

Pictures

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^ 4/27 ^

4/28

Today we cut out the front of out robot. We also drilled holes in the side blocks for the front axles. The wires for the gear box were soldered together. All of this progress can be seen in our pictures. Awesome.

4/27

On wednesday we cut out two 16 in. chucks of wood for the base sides of our super robot. I got to use the chop saw again and did not lose a finger. We also drilled the holes in the wood where the axels will go through to connect to the wheels. An overall awesome day!

4/26

On tuesday we cut out the base of our awesome robot from masonite. We also did a super duper job at glueing our axels onto the gearbox.

4/25

Today Kyle and I used our awesome airplane dodging abilities to safely get to Mr. Podmers and ask him about the Masonite situation. After that we constructed our rear axles and got the lead wires for our gear box. Twas awesome.

4/22

On friday we created a "Prototype" of our super awesome robot. The reason we made a prototype was due to the fact we didnt have a big enough chuck of masonite to fit all the awesomeness on. We created the base of our super robot from the masonite and foam. Hopefully on Monday we will get the right size masonite so we can start our final designs.

4/21

In today's super awesome class we had an awesome discussion with Mr. Reinhardt about our super awesome drawings (two awesome posts down). After this we had more ideas and we were going to start building our awesome robot. However do to a lack of large pieces of Masonite we were unable to construct.

4/20

Today was a very special day. We began and finished our super awesome final drafts for our super duper awesome machine. Our drawings turned out much better then Steven and Adam's drawings. They can be seen below. With the drawings done we plan on starting to build our design tomorrow. Awesome!

final drawings

4/19

Tuesday was a day where we made our super awesome gear box even more super awesome. I think that made it superer awesomer but I'm not too sure. It is superer awesomer because we fixed the gear ratio making it 30ish to one instead of 300ish to one. This will allow our vehicle to travel at much greater speeds. However I just got ahead of myself. At the beginning of the hour we witnessed a super duper demonstration that taught us how to connect everything to our transmitter. We were supposed to see this demonstration last week performed by our student aids however as noted in a earlier post they are incompetent. We also discussed what materials we can use to construct our super duper better than Adam and Steven's robot.

4/18

On Monday we got our super awesome gear boxes. We spent the whole day putting it together. We accidentally set the motors to full torque and slow speed which is not super duper. We plan on changing it to a lower torque tommorrow.

4/16

Friday was a day that was supposed to be super duper awesome however due to the lack of awesomeness on the part of our student aids we missed out on a demonstration. This allowed more brainstorming and resolutions to be made. Also significant progress was made on the drawings that are all on the super awesome sketches and ideas blog.

4/15

Thursday, what a day. We realized what some of our major flaws and they were resolved making our engineering project even more super awesome.

4/13

Wednesday was a very interesting day as we started more detailed drawings and much awesome brainstorming occurred.

4/12

On Tuesday we got super awesome kits from last year and started looking at many of the components that were used the previous year. I'm so excited.

4/11

On Monday we formed our groups, got the syllabus and set up this awesome blog with fish.

Some awesome sketchs and ideas