Mon 28 Jan 2008
Build Season 2008!
Posted by holycows under Competitions
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Week One:
We just found out what the challenge is for this year and as of right now have no idea what we are going to build. There have been some ideas but no concensuse on any. It seems, though, that the tri-claw is the most reasonable idea. We are going to keep trying to develop new ideas but we are also going to begin modeling some of the existing ones on Solid Works.
Oh we popped a hole in our ball, lovely. So now we have to buy a new one and hopefully not pop it.
Week Two:
The marvelous Devil Duckies were so wonderful as to lend us their ball to work with so we are back in bussiness.
We have come up with designs that use a fork lift and/or penguin arms and have started making prototypes. In testing we found the penguin arms required too much force and thus that idea fails. As for the fork lift idea, we decided to mount the arms on a lift and use high density polyurithane as a scoop to remove the ball from the hurdle. We have also been working with programming the IR sensor.
Week Three:
This week has been full of prototyping and problem solving. We have the fork lift attached to our lift and have been expirimenting with ways to knock the ball down using our plastic rake. We are looking at several different ideas in knocking down the ball. We have considered using a governor since we need to be driving at a certain speed for the flap to work. We have also though about dropping the ball over the hurdle, by lifting the forks, instead of using the flap.
Week Four:
This week has just begun!!
