Author Archives: CharlesO

Build Season: Day 18

We’ve pretty much finished our chassis; all we have to do is add wheels. We’ve started our belt system frame by tapping and threading some aluminum profiles with T-channels. We also added lower C-channels for where the wheels are going … Continue reading

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Build Season: Day 17

Today we started constructing the frame for our chassis; we put a couple motors on to feel the weight. We also started a good bit of our BOM(Build of Materials). Tomorrow we will be looking over the kinect, starting the … Continue reading

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Build Season: Day 16/ Fundraising!

On game day Sunday, we decided to do some fundraising. We bought about 350 dollars in a variety of candy. We had two groups sitting outside of both sides of the Shoppers entrance in Parkville. Yes. We were cold, but … Continue reading

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Build Season: Day 15

Today with very few people and little access to our resources and materials at the school we could only get so much done, but we are now ready to start building! We created and finalized full scale designs and reworked … Continue reading

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Build Season: Day 13

To finish off week two of our build season we built a one wheel shooting prototype and tested it. We completed technical drawings of the shooting system and finished the CAD model of our Archimedes Screw. We updated and added … Continue reading

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