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6-17-08: The Lego students met with J. R. Kirtech the weather man from
WJRT TV12 to discuss the weather and climate change.
6-14-08: Car Wash was a great success, washed allot of cars, and
received some good donations. We also had some grate tacos donated from
Taco Bell. Check out the pictures at car wash . Check
out this video
 
6-11-08: Prep meeting for this weekends car wash, only Joe and Troy
showed up. We made a couple
of signs, we were hoping some one with a artistic ability would have
showed up. We also rewired the
old omni robot.
 
5-25-08: Buggy Fun from this weekend
 
5-19-08: New control system for 2009. CLICK IMAGE FOR LINK
 
   
5-16-08: Video of robot claw working automatic.
http://www.team1322.org/video.htm
5-13-08: Programmed the robot IR sensor and the claw to operate.
Programmed the old omni robot to work again in all directions. We will be
practicing driving it, the 2009 robot will use the same drive program.
5-11-08: Installed IR sensor for detecting the ball when its in position
to grab.
5-02-08: We are thinking about entering a float in the 4th of July to
bring in some new members. If any body is interested in helping please contact
us through our contact page. We will need a truck to pull the trailer.
5-01-08: Connected a solenoid to the arm lift pneumatic so we can stop
it at mid position. We are having trouble with the radio so we set up the old
omni drive robot to check out if its the radio or programming. Also the students
can get use to omni drive for the up coming 2009 season. Troy hung Ryan's shoe
in a tree. Troy snagged Giggles shoe and gave it to Ryan and the chase was on.
After 10 minute of running we got back to working on the robot.
4-18-08: We want to congratulate Troy for winning the
Kettering
University scholarship. This is a very large scholarship for him and will help
him go a long way at Kettering University. With his proven ability with our team
and his common sense knowledge he has a great chance of becoming very successful
with his goals in life.
4-12-08 - 4-17-08: Rebuilt the arm, we are now using a pneumatic to lift
the arm, and to grab and release the ball. This should make the ball easier to
work with. It will also give us a place to install a over pass sensor to release
the ball at the correct time.
4-11-08: Joe solved the traction problem with omni directional system
and is now designing it for the 2009 season. Not only does this give us more
traction it will also give us a suspension that will work on ramps. The secret
design (except to team members) should win the highly sought after design award.
4-10-08: We started an off season project.
2008 Robot Build
Pictures
Above Left to Right: Troy,
Brian, Michelle, Ryan, Andrea (Ryan C is today's ghost member)
3-28-08: We ranked 56 out of 63. Probably our worst showing ever at
Great Lakes. Its not last place but we can do much better. I believe our drivers
need to practice more before the events and learn the rules better. We
scored well but lost to penalties. Even with the poor showing we did learn from
this and will change and do better for the Kettering fall event. We will look
for drivers that WANT to practice every chance they get so we can do well this
fall.
3-28-08: Our scores are not high and we are not winning games. We are
having fun and enjoy working on the robot. We were hoping to win the web site
award but fell short of that goal.
3-27-08: Great Lakes Regional Practice day; Practice went well, the
robot was working good. The drives had to get use to the robot and learn to play
the game. Programming the hybrid mode is giving us trouble.
3-08-08: Michigan Rookie Event at Kettering University ran flawlessly today. The game was
good and the teams learned a lot.
3-07-08: Michigan Rookie Event at Kettering University was very interesting today, it was a
lot of work inspecting the rest of the robots. With all being rookies the
majority of them did not pass and needed some work. Veteran teams from as far
away as Detroit came to help with the rookie teams and their repairs.
With that help we did get them all past inspection by 1:00 pm The start of the
games. At 1:15 the games stoped for tree hours because of technical
difficulties. This gave the rookie teams a three hour fix-it window, after that
their robots were tuned up and ready to go. We ran matches until 9:30 pm.
3-06-08: Michigan Rookie Event at Kettering University was set up Wednesday and Thursday.
Teams started arriving at 4:00 pm and started uncrating their robot, shortly
after we began inspections. All is going well with the rookies. Some are in pretty
good shape for their first event. Our committee members are doing their tasks
very well and the event is coming together exceptionally well. I believe it is
our experience with putting on the Kettering Fall event that will make this
event turn out great.
3-02-08: We need help from our members to help set up the field at
Kettering on Wednesday.
2-19-08: Yahoo!! The robot is shipped. This is a good time for a
break.
2-18-08: Went up to Kettering one more time. The
robot work flawless. The ball pick up is working 100 %,
we are able to pick the ball up with ease. We can lift the ball to the overpass
and flip it over every time. The robot drive system is working great. Carmen Answorth was there testing their robot, it looks good. They
are working out their bugs. Stopped over at Lake Fenton to help them out, their robot is
looking good also. One day left.
2-17-08: We installed rubber to stop the ball slippage, that work too
well, made a bracket to stop the arm bolt from breaking, that
worked. Took the robot to Kettering university practice field and tested
our changes. They all worked well, found we needed a roller on top of the ball
shooter, and a roller to help the arm move forward, repaired those items when
we were back to the shop. The Swartz Creek team was their, we were hoping to
play with them but they were not able to run until after we left, too bad.
Finished the bumpers today, and worked on the programming also. It's ready for
ship. Maybe one more practice. Two days left.
 
2-16-08: Bent a new arm to replace the old, fixed pneumatic relay
problem, started assembling the bumpers. Took the robot over to the
Lake Fenton
HAZMAT team and used
their overpass to test the robot. Everything worked good.
We did break a bolt for the arm but we have a solution for that. We also had
slippage for the the ball pick up and we have that
problem solved. Checked out Lake Fenton, they are doing much better this
year with their time. They are behind by our standards but looks like they are
doing good. We can help them if they need it. We
forgot to take pictures but troy video taped the robot. We had some good food
for lunch and the kid are excited. Its
hard to keep them focused on the work to be done, but after six weeks of build
that to be expected. End of Week six, next is ship week. Three days left
2-15-08: Painted the rear panel, moved the IR remote sensor, repaired
the broken wire chain guide, moved the arm assembly up 1 inch, repaired a
damaged bearing guide, relocated the pneumatic for the ball shooter. Still need
to work in the pneumatic relay to make the ball lift slow before its ready to
shoot, it's together just needs to be checked. All that's left is bend a new
arm and assemble the robot bumpers. A good day's work.
Four days and counting.
2-14-08: Installed the sides to the robot, its getting so close.
 
2-13-08: Took the robot to the Kettering test field. The robot worked great.
A brace needs to be moved so the ball will stay in better just before hurdling.
We also need to have the arm that holds the ball to stay in place until the
actual hurdle than move out of the way. Painted the robot
panels. Made a list of other repairs needed.
2-12-08: Tested the gear tooth sensors, they are working. Cut the side
panels that need to be painted for the decorative sides. Weighed
the robot, 110 pounds.
2-11-08: Finally got the pivot points and lift worked out. When in the
ball pick up its right on, but when moved back it just
clears the over pass by 1/8 of an inch, might even hit it, should not be a
problem. Eric is working on the hybrid program.
2-10-08: Richie our program expert Helped
Eric, our programmer with setting up the gear tooth sensor and other
programming. We rebuilt the ball lift to make it stronger. Trying
to figure out the pivot point for the pneumatics and the lift unit.
Relocated some limit switches to better locations.
 
2-9-08: End of week five, took the robot up to the Kettering field to test the robot. The ball pick up works great. The ball/arm lift works great (a
little slow but good for this game). The lift to
hurdle the ball actually was able to throw the ball over the over pass. After a
test try we found that the assembly was not strong enough and the pneumatics
for setting the ball on top of the robot needed to be slowed, we can do that by
adding adjustment valve in parallel with a electric
valve. We raced the robot around the track many times and found it to be very
fast.
2-7-08: Worked on the wire chain guide, it now works perfectly. Fixed a glitch in the program. Replaced a
bad pneumatic relay. Tested all components, the robot is working great.
The ball pick up is working better than expected. Still
trying to find a way to secure the track, no way of doing it with out getting
in the way of the arm mechanism. It works fine but it would be nice to
make it stronger.
2-6-08: Too much snow for a meeting
2-5-08: Worked on making the robot fit in the start box configuration.
Worked on tweaking parts of the robot.
2-4-08: some basic programming is in the robot, checked out some of
the mechanisms and they need tweaking. The robot speed is very fast. The ball
pick up needs a little more grip. The wire chain needs more of a rack.
 
2-3-08: Started programming, installed the gear toothed sensor and it
did not work per the specs. We had power to it and did receive a change on a
meter for the passing of the teeth but it was not going from zero to five volts
that it was suppose to. We set up lab view 8 to test the signal to confirm our
problem. Ritchie is going to take an old gear tooth sensor and configure it to
work for us. The IR sensor was calibrated for the remote control we have and
that works fine.
2-2-08: The list keeps getting smaller. Completed
most of the tasks on the list to complete the robot. It is now time to
start programming and checking how things work. Installed the fuses, the
battery holder is done and all that is left is the gear tooth sensors and the
gyro chip installed. Once all the items check out than we have to install the
decretive shields to the sides.
1-30-08: Ryan C. and Brian installed the battery holder,
Troy, Ryan, Michelle, Andrea,
Rosie completed the main electrical wiring. The original layout was designed by
Michelle our team leader.
1-29-08: started wiring the electrical boards, Pulled the arm wires
through the wire chain (missed one set of wires), installed pneumatics.
1-26-08: Long day, installed the electrical boards,
tweaked the arm and pick up motor. Installed the ball bats (
to hit the opponents ball backwards. Had a good lunch supplied by
Andrea.
 
1-24-08: Attach track to robot, build main power board.
 
1-23-08: Assemble track motors, paint and assemble electrical board.
1-22-08: Build track motor plates, start electrical board
1-19-08: End of Second Week: Assembled, 4 air tanks, compressor and claw.
Bent tubing's for arm, cleaned up track.
  
1-17-08: attachment of the casters is giving us trouble, no clearance
for it to turn 360. Received the track after being machined.
1-16-08: frame, drive motor and wheel assembly. Aluminum track cut and
sent out for machining.
1-15-08: assembly of gear boxes and frame.
1-14-08: New Design. We are still trying to keep moving while
delivering.
1-12-08: Failure !! We was at Baker collage to go over ideas for the game with the
local teams and our presentation was great. We sold how well our robot was
going to do and our ideas seemed wonderful. Afterwards we took our test robot
up to Kettering University to try out the Ideas. Although in
our garage with the garage compressor at 60 PSI it threw the ball great, but at
Kettering the 60 PSI from the robot would
hardly lift the ball. Using a "T" on top of the robot would not
remove the ball from the rack it just lifted it and turned it. The fork lift
lifted the ball very well but found it was too hard to capture the ball. Back to the drawing board.
1-10-08: Completed the test robot.
 
1-10-08: An article in our local news paper submitted by our team
leader.
1-09-08: CAD design started, Modify old robot to test new robot designs
has started.
1-08-08: Rough Robot designs approved today. We hope to Throw the ball
over the over pass. We still have not agreed on the drive system. Some want two
drives and casters and some want Mechen wheels drive.
1-05-08: Kettering Kick off, We picked up our
parts after enjoying the live NASA feed from New Hampshire. The game release was exciting and
fun and the game looks like a simple challenge. We are to race around a track
while pushing a 40in. ball. The meeting afterward with the team to discuss the
game was very productive. The members came up very good ideas and I believe all
of them would work. We will discuss the best one on Tuesday after the final
presentations from the team.
1-3-08: Game hint 3, we'll wait until Saturday.
1-3-08: We had some sort of meeting thing. "It looked like a
movie theater, two more buckets of popcorn". (Quote as of: Giggles, 1-3-08, 8:17:32PM). Troy thought it was the Indy 500.
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