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.