Day 26: It’s Beginning to Look like Robots

Manufacturing

Today, we received all of our parts back from the welding sponsors.  All of the welds look great and beautiful and we were able to begin assembling parts.  The frames are being brought to the powder coating sponsor early in the morning and will be powdercoated soon.

Welded drivebase.

Battery Box

Bumper Support.

Welded arm.

Assembled frame.

Full frame shot.

In other news, manufacturing and prototyping continued and we got a shipment of parts in today.  We hope to finish machining in the next week.

Day 25: Manufacturing, Prototyping, Whole-Team Meeting

Manufacturing

Manufacturing is really in full swing in N246.  We are churning out new parts every hour and the horizontal bandsaw hardly stopped cutting stock today.  We should have a productive week ahead.

Bobby on the lathe.

Prototyping

The minibot prototyping group continued to prototype their minibot design using several custom-built parts.  The prototype is not yet complete.

Soldering leads onto a motor.

Whole-Team Meeting

Today was a whole-team meeting and parent meeting at the lab.  We met to get status updates from each subgroup captain.  The meeting went awesome.

The programming team speaks to some of the parents during the parents meeting.