Day 24: Manufacturing, Prototyping & Programming

Manufacturing

The manufacturing team was hard at work today on the mill, lathe and CNC mill.  We made countless shafts and spacers, several major CNC’d parts that need to be powdercoated and worked on endcaps and the elevator second stage side rails on the manual mill.

Team members prepare shaft blanks for turning.

Design & Prototyping

The design and prototyping groups were busy today working on their iteration of the minibot design.  With this design, they are trying to make the robot as lightweight and fast as possible utilizing several minibot-legal custom parts including a sheet metal frame.  The prototype was not yet completed.

Several team members work to refine the minibot conceptual design.

Team members making drawings for parts.

Programming & Controls

The programming & controls team was working on a number of tasks today including preparing our new Custom Controls Interface for interfacing with the software.  Furthermore, they are working on the simulator and working to setup the new 2011 wireless bridge.

Programming team hard at work.