Week of Work

Accomplished:

+ Began building the robot arm

After receiving inspiration from some other robots, we came up with an arm design. As of now we are not yet done with the arm itself, however. We hope to get to that point soon, despite only having another four class days to work on it. There have been a few problems and obstacles during the week, namely the lack of quality materials and in some cases the lack of materials period. Weyoun now proudly wears badges of "ingenuity" like clear tape and plastic wrap. Hey, we've had to make do with what we do have!

A close-up on Weyoun's new, in-progress arm

From my photography you'd think only Sammyr does any work 

Renewed Optimism, as Well as Confusion

Goals:
+ Maintain blog up-to-date
+ Complete the robot arm challenge

The "robot arm challenge" goal is not very specific, so I'll elaborate briefly. We need to create some pyramids out of straws, create an arm for our robot, and have the arm be capable of picking the pyramids up and putting them on a rack. If we succeed in putting 3 pyramids on the topmost rack, then we will receive the best grade possible. It is our hope that we can accomplish this as soon as possible, due to our previous setbacks and not being behind the other teams.

This part of the project has me a bit stumped, honestly, but we can do this! We have to...

The rack with some pyramids hanging off of it