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Revision as of 02:18, 31 July 2009
In order that we continue to develop knowledge and skills, Team 1640 is again engaging in a Summer program in 2009. We will meet Tuesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the Downingtown Educational Center starting 23-June through 18-August. We will be meeting in the shop area.
The FRC team will be working on our summer projects to develop new knowledge through prototyping and testing.
Contents
23 June Meeting
The team's missions for this summer were agreed upon:
- Prototype and test a 4-wheel pivot drive chassis.
- Prototype should allow multi-mode drive:
- Tank - Tank wheels on each side are parallel
- Crab - Crab wheels pairs (front and rear) turn the same direction
- Snake - Snake wheel pairs (front and rear) turn in opposite directions
- Target a ½-scale prototype using Vex parts and follow-through with a hypothetical Autodesk Inventor chassis design in FRC-scale. (12*18" actual size)
- Prototype should allow multi-mode drive:
- Engage in a literature and paper study of arm, gripper and lift systems
In addition:
- Paul K has a Vision control mission.
- Alex H has agreed to learn Inventor.
7 July Meeting
We started building our prototype (for real) at this meeting.
Here are the drawings for fabrication & assembly (pdf format):
At this meeting we:
- Collected the parts we will need
- Identified parts (just a few) which need to be ordered
- Cut all of the metal parts which need cutting
- Started assembling the Pivot Wheel Units
14 & 15 July Meetings
Kenneth joined the team! Welcome.
By popular demand, we are meeting Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
At these meetings we:
- Built all of the Pivot Wheels Units
- Built the basic frame
- attached the first Pivot Wheel Unit
- Performed some gearbox repair on DEWBOT V
- Replaced missing pneumatic parts from DEWBOT III
21 & 22 July Meetings
- Unfinished DRAFT Analysis of the Pivot-Wheel System. (unfinished due to McKown computer problems).
Progress:
- Installed all Pivot Wheel Units
- Installed all Pivot Wheel Steering Gears & Drives
- Installed cRIO and Digital Sidecar
- The Prototype is Mechanically Complete
28 & 29 July Meetings
It's time to wire & program!
Summer Program Gallery
Carly & Paul work on vision project
Matt builds the prototype's pivot units
We design then we build...
...and we build what we design
Kenneth & Alex
Kenneth
Matt & Kenneth
Mechanical Completion
wiring prototype
Praveen, Matt & Alex
Paul & Kenneth programming
wiring prototype
Catch up on other team information at FRC Team 1640
