October 28, 2010 Meeting Report

Today we made some progress on the robot and on Samantha. Jared, Scott, and Logan worked on the robot's baton system and made it better. The Programming team; Brad, Sean, and Holden; tested the tele-op program using joysticks and servos. Connor wasn't here to do the blog, so Jared updated the info instead.

The Baton Manipulation team had a couple of problems. On the wheels, they had a stuck gear. This would remove a lot of mobility to get over the mountain. They had to remove a gear to find out what gear it was, and then lubricated the gear. Finally, they replaced the gear they removed.

They also found that a gear was to low, so they inserted a flat piece of metal to raise the gear. That fixed the issue.

Mr. Lanterman helped with the Baton Manipulation team, and Mr. Reidy helped with Baton Manipulation and Programming

Tonight we had pizza provided by the Reidys and sugar cookies provided by the Lantermans.

The next meeting will be sometime on Friday, November 5th, when we have off school.

Have a safe and Happy Halloween!