FTC 7314 Engineering Notebook 2015-09-21

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Competition Season Meeting

Meeting Date Meeting Time Location Attendees
Monday 21-September-2015 6:00-8:00pm TCHS Brandywine Josh, Akhila, Justin, Braden, Trevor, Amal, Wade, Daniel, Jacob, Myles


Objectives / Systems Hypotheses, tests, observations, conclusions, plans
Tetrix Treads measured dimensions

Ordered Tetrix Treads (2 kits plus accessories) have arrived.

  • Idler wheel diameter = 2.560"
  • Tread thickness = 0.175"; Tread width = 1.560"
  • Idler / Tread effective diameter = 2.910"
  • Pitch (19 1/16" for 50 links) = 0.381" (probably 0.375" nominal, but there is some slop)
'Intake
  • Braden, Myles, Amal, Wade,and Trevor were helping out with the intake
  • We measured the length and width of our mini chasis.We also used Polycarbon glass as well.


Tasks Reflections
Drive Chain Sklz
  • John worked with Gary and Daniel to attempt to put together the tank treads. Puttering the rubber doohickeys into the tread whosiwhatsits. This took 5ever and gary reported that His arem achmed AFTER HE PUT ALL THE RUBBER THINGAMADOOHICKEYS IN THE PLACE.
we had made the tracks and have came up with an early idea for our scoring system.
  • Bullet point for each reflection we were pretty productive today and got work done.

Action and idea Journal



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