Update: Weekend Work

Summary: The robot is on its way to being complete. It should be functional by tomorrow night.


Before the presentation we need to:

• Glue in the stepper motors
• Finish the gearbox
• Finish the shell
• Finalize code
• Make a poster? (I have a Trifold if we want it)

So over the weekend:

I finished off the structure of the body.

I attempted to mount the stepper motors with foam core board brackets and used washers to create the bearings for the axle.

I did some testing with securing the gears with hot glue, but while it worked in my small tests, when I assembled the device as a whole, it failed.

After scrapping the mounts and sidewalls, I epoxied the gears in place. Tomorrow night they should be ready for another lift test.

 

The cup holder is also done, but after seeing it in blue foam, I was disappointed, so I built a shell to enclose our robot, I figured we could put lapels on it, so it looks like a little suit code.

 

 

For the gearbox, I also prepped some back-up axles by grinding down the ends of a metal rod, in case the ones we ordered don't fit properly.