This Week for Sure

We are very close to finishing! Our only goal so far this week is to be finally (FINALLY) done with the Solidworks Squarebot. I can't tell you how glad I'll be when this part is over. This turned out to be more arsenic than cake, it seems. And of course, hardly anyone will get my reference. Siigh. That's what the life of a person without cable is like: constantly watching old movies and shows nobody cares about anymore.

The amount of parts we have is a little excessive...

Squarebot...

Once again the weeks come to an end. The assembly has proved to be harder than expected and finding some of the parts was even harder. We did find all of the parts needed in the assembly and finished a good 70% of the squarebot. We expect to have it completed 2/2/15.

Still Working on it...

The goal for this week is to finish building the infamous squarebot and attempt to not be the last team to do it. So far we're behind, but with a little time we can make exponential progress. So far this what we have.

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Getting our blogs up to date by this week.

Tedious Task

It's the end of our third week and we've luckily been able to keep up and continue progressing towards creating the square bot in Solidworks. Although proving to be a tedious task we've started to isolate the parts needed to begin it's creation in Solidworks. Hopefully we'll manage to have it ready by the very least next Tuesday.

Some of the Solidworks parts we will be using

Arsenic Cake?

The goals for this week are to:

• Finish learning the necessary information for the robot
• Begin work on the Solidsworks square-bot

It looks like next week we'll be able to start taking apart some robots. It might be a little tedious but the learning experience will be priceless. Building the square-bot in Solidsworks could end up being easy, though. I do believe that their is a step-by-step guide available somewhere. Will this week be a piece of cake? Or will it be laced with arsenic? Only time can tell.

A VEX robot similar to what we are building, to give an idea of what the completed one will look like. 

End of the Week

This is the end of the week, and we finally found the vex starters kit for usage in Solidworks We can use this to experiment on how we should build our robot in the future. And now that we have these references such as the links shown in this blog.

Additionally, we also learned the basics for programming the robots using robot C.

The program we will be using to program the robot, RobotC

Excited!

We have one goal for this week:

• Receive resources and information from Mr. Martin to build the robot

I have to say, I'm looking forward to the end results of this project! Even though I'm a level 10 Bot Builder in The Sims, it never crossed my mind I'd end up a robot builder in real life. Part of me is bouncing off the walls with excitement, but the other? It's trembling in its boots. 

My teammates and I will be working hard this week, and I'm sure that they are excited too!

Vex's Inventor's Guide will be an invaluable source of information for us