Manufacturing and Prototyping Progress

MANUFACTURING

Today, construction on the tensioner cams was completed.

PROTOTYPING

Today we did extensive prototyping with vacuums.  We continued to work with the two-stage impeller assembly hooked up to 2 fisher price motors.  The impellers are currently running with a 1:1 reduction off of the fisher price motors.  We hooked it up to a 4″ funnel which we mounted on the front of the 2009 drivebase.

The vaccum seems to work much better than any roller systems we have found.  It maintains good suction on the ball.  The only potential issue is getting the ball, which may be able to be solved with adequate driver practice.

(There was a video here that has sadly been lost in the archives.)

(There was a video here that has sadly been lost in the archives.)

(There was a video here that has sadly been lost in the archives.)

(There was a video here that has sadly been lost in the archives.)