Team 3113 Wins the 2011 South Central PA Qualifier

details to come....

Bot Specs (York)

Matt setting up the next test.
Thanks to the Reidy's for buying food to feed the beasts
Holden tweaking the program.
Bot going up the bridge.
Bot scoring in rolling goal.
Holden double checking the program.
Bot testing.
Matt fixing the bot.
The "little guys" working on the bull-nose.
Bot testing.
Our baton dispensing system located at the front of the bot.
Samantha, located at the top of our bot.
Our conveyor to dispense batons.
Our battery pack located below the conveyor.
Our baton collecting spinners.
Baton dispensing setup.
Drive system.
Secondary bridge dropper at the front of the bot.
Our main bridge dropper located at the back of our bot.
Bull-nose rolling goal collecting system use to score in rolling goal.

1/28/2011

Logan, Connor, Sean, Matt, James, Holden, Mr.Pontius, Andrew,Jarid, Mr.Lanterman, Brad

Today is our last day till our competition, everyone except Jarid and Mr.Laterman are staying over to get a good night rest till tommorow.
A VERY UNLUCKY THING HAPPENED, MY BROTHER AND OUR MAIN DRIVER, SCOTT HAS FALLEN ILL. SO OUR MAIN DRIVER IS ANDREW AND OUR SECONDARY IS SEAN. Despite
our problems we hope to have the same result as the MD competition.
Today we are testing like CRAZY and our new drivers are practicing.

1/27'/2011

Sean, Holden, Jared, James, Mr.Pontious, Andrew, Scott, Connor, Matt, Logan, Brad, Mr. Lanterman.

Today we are testing our robot Autonomous and testing driving up the ramp.
We are also testing putting batons in the rolling goal.

Things done in previous meetings

• V system to catch rolling goal was changed into a bull-nose.
• A servo to put bridge down from front.
• The use of many servo's.
• Re-wiring the new bot systems.
• We got rid of the lower baton collector because we do not plan on collecting from the lower baton dispenser.
• Rotation sensors attached for more accurate autonomous movement.
• Fixed the servo wire on the bull-nose.
• Programming the new servo's.
  

January 16, 2011

Brad, Connor, Scott, Sean, Holden, James, Mr.Lanterman, Jared, Mr.Pontius, Andrew, Matt
Scott, Matt, and Andrew are wiring the new bot because of our changes.
The programming team are setting up the new controller layout.
The servo was twitching uncontrollably because only the negatave wire was working.
We are innovating our bull-nose.
The middle gear is hitting the mountain while we are traveling over it.
During testing we found these problems....

• Wheels and conveyor where backwards
• The bridge servo did not have enough power to put the bridge down
• Bull-nose needs to go higher
  

January 1, 2011 Happy new year!

People present-Jared, Brad, Connor, Scott, Sean, Holden, Mr. Pontious, Andrew, Mr. Lanterman
Now since we have won our competition we are going to York for a qualifier now all we are doing is innovating.
In building we are tweaking our arm's mounting devise.
In software we are programing a motor encoder.
We are also brainstorming a new way to center the rolling goal.
We have found many ways to collect the goal and we are testing them.
We have finished building and programming the encoders.+