the day's plan
Siri & Jen start on the pneumatics
Carly & Clem McKown put the bumpers on after some quick drilling
Mike Rizzo & his giant screwdriver
Siri, Gary Deaver & Jen test firing the modified kicker...
...here's the ball...
...and there it goes
Kicker release (Mk I)
Douglas installing the kicker release
David Moyer, Douglas & Siri installing the kicker release
Michael & Paul
Andrew painting the red bumper backs
Matt, Faith McKown & Gary Deaver installing a helper cylinder on the Kicker cocking mechanism
Kicker release mechanism in-place
David Moyer & Matt operating the Kicker & Release mechanism pneumatically
Carly & Mike Rizzo putting on the painted red bumpers (so Carly can drive the robot faster)
Clippard pneumatic storage cylinders installed on DEWBOT VI
TEST: DEWBOT can drive over balls sideways
easy-smeasy
We'll fix this tomorrow
Melanie painting the backs of the blue bumpers
Jen cutting the steel square tube for kicker release Mk II
Detail of right-side Clippard air storage cylinders
Dashboard view
Mike Rizzo & the screwdriver
Andrew & Sasha drilling holes for solenoid mounts
Nichole working on 1640 slideshow
Douglas, Ben W & Matt testing kicker
DEWBOT herding ball into goal
Gary Deaver, Douglas, Matt & Ben W testing kicker
chainguard form
Jen & Carly drilling and tapping side guard holes
Gary Deaver's alternative release mechanism
Carly painting
Jen painting
DEWBOT VI driving in crab mode
Programming team - Ben R, Kenneth, Paul & Jon Davis
Cole drilling index holes in the polycarbonate for the chainguards
Gary Deaver and Matt riveting on the tool steel plate
Douglas, Mike Rizzo and David Moyer working out the kicker problems
Burning the (not yet) midnight oil
Kicker sequence 1/4 (fired) - cocking retracted & unlatched
Kicker sequence 2/4 - cocking extended & unlatched
Kicker sequence 3/4 - cocking extended & latched
Kicker sequence 4/4 (armed) - cocking retracted & latched
The magical wire ties
Crossing bump with sideguards in-place - no problem
Herding with robot side & sideguards. We can no longer drive over the balls from the sides.
Mike Rizzo diagnosing the kicker problem
Melanie, Jack & Selina put a second coat on
Kicker sequence 0/4 - at rest
Kicker sequence 1/4 - cocked
Kicker sequence 2/4 - latched
Kicker sequence 3/4 - armed
Kicker sequence 4/4 - fire
Mike Rizzo & Paul reviewing the kicker's control sequence
The moment of truth - weigh-in of the almost completed robot
118 lb
Tonight's punchlist
Scott Featherman, Mike Rizzo & Cole
The kicker
Mike Rizzo, Scott Featherman & David Moyer
Mike Rizzo, David Moyer, Gary Deaver & Faith McKown
Jen
Sue Weissman with T-Shirt design
Mike Rizzo - Kicker on robot
Carly & Gary Deaver
Foster Schucker & Douglas
Kenneth in the Muppet Lab
Matt cutting spare kicker parts on the horizontal bandsaw
Douglas with T-Shirt Logo
Cole drilling camera mount
Ben W cutting spare kicker part
Jen & Paul - It's that simple...
David Moyer, Gary Deaver & Mark Morun
Mark Morun & Cole work on the camera mount
Gary Deaver smoothing the cord guides
Mike Rizzo
Gary Deaver & David Moyer
ball kicked
The moment before contact
Cylinders in the armed state
Programmers were here
Kenneth, Foster Schucker & Carly
Siri & the vacuumformed chainguard
Kicker pneumatics with new, bigger helper cylinder
Mike Rizzo, Gary Deaver & Siri
The business end of DEWBOT VI
A robot's eye view of a scoring kick from the far field
Gary Deaver operating the pneumatics
Matt cutting the spare kicker arm
Faith & Jen
Today's plan
Jen marking cutouts
Siri & Scott Featherman
Programming team - Ben R, Paul, Kenneth & Zain
Mike Rizzo, David Moyer & Scott Featherman
Douglas & Cole setting up ball return
Jen painting bumpers
Matt, Faith & Ben W
Camera mounted
Jen, Douglas & Faitn McKown cutting polycarbonate robot cover
Matt & Clem McKown welding spare kicker
Scott Featherman & Gary Deaver installing carpeted possessor