Welcome back to the blog! Today I’ll be talking about the progress of each of our subgroups throughout the 3rd and 4th weeks.
First: Business. Business has started work on the Woodie Flowers’ Essay, an essay to commemorate one of our dedicated mentors to earn an award for their hard work. We’ve made major progress throughout the 3rd week, from choosing one of our mentors to creating a full fledged essay and moving on to editing. Business member Lina has been taking pictures and using her photoshop skills to create logos for our faithful sponsors, and Anthony’s been continuing his job of locating new sponsors for our team.
Next: Manufacturing. Manufacturing has completely finished the hub and is almost done with the entire arena. They’ve demonstrated their hard work and adeptness, and are aiming to finish the wooden robot as of week 4. The hub is one of the most integral parts of the game, and the completion of it is a large monument in prototype testing. They hope that the building of the wooden robot will allow programming to experiment and use their code to test programs in real life scenarios.
In the meantime, CAD has been hard at work finalizing designs for practically all of the mechanisms for the robot. Shooter, intake, CDS, they’ve done it all. Recently, they’ve finished the climber design, which the robot will use to gain extra points close to the end of the game. Now, they’ve started work on the operator station, where robots will be manned by human drivers during the teleoperated section of the game.
Meanwhile, Programming has started work on the climber, has been hard at work perfecting the beam brake/indexing for the ball, which allows the intake to function properly, completely finished the code for the drivebase, and is currently working on the shooter. Programming also has a new feature: access to a wooden robot courtesy of Manufacturing that allows them to test code. Their progress allows us to thrive once competition starts.
That’s all, folks! Catch you next time on…
the ausTIN CANs!
