Only a week and a half from our first competition! Our A-Bot and B-Bot teams are slowly completing their robots with the best design and they’re are almost all together! Here’s what they’ve been doing this week.
The B-Bot has all of its parts together! Right now they’re tweaking the robot, making sure that it moves well, picks up all of the pieces correctly without any getting stuck, and so that no pieces fall out of the robot as well.
A-Bot is coming along well, they are finished with the elevator, the claw, and the intake, and now they are working on tweaking those parts and putting the climb on their robot. They are starting a CNC on some different parts as well, but they are very close to having their full robot together!
The design team has almost finished designing the climb! They are very close, with just making small tweaks here and there. It is all ready to assemble and put on the robot! Some other kids on the design team are also starting CNC on different parts, as well as cutting, deburring, and painting parts.
The business team has been busy making lots of buttons this week! We need to make plenty for the next competition, and we’ve made around 600 buttons for our first competition. We’ve also been updating our social media this week, making a few different TikToks. One of our TikToks reached 2,000 views! This is a big deal for us. We’ve been working on a Jeopardy game to test all of the members of the team on what they know about our Engineering Handbook. The game will test the different information about the elevator, the claw, the chassis, the intake, and the elevator.
The programming team has been really busy this week! Since most of the buildings of the robots are done, it’s time to start testing their code. A-Bot has mainly been testing the different subsystems of the robots that are ready, such as the claw, the intake, and the elevator. B-Bot has been testing its path planner code with the robot. They’ve had a few issues with it. The robot is struggling to move very far with the coral inside of the robot. Often the coral falls out of the robot, which can be a problem especially if the coral gets stuck somewhere on the robot. They will work on debugging their code and working with the B-Bot build team to help reinforce that the coral doesn’t fall out of their robot.