1/6 - Of all shapes and sizes.

>> Take a look - Our mentors finished their Betelgeuse robot in under 3 days! <<

The students returned to school after their winter vacation today. Today was an organizational day as we brought everything back from R13D's ORyon Labs ... as well as a productive work day with tweaking done to our wide prototype drive train, strategy discussions, and CAD work.

Design + CAD:
A lot of people may not realize that the the robot simply has to fit within the 28in x 42in x 78in box during transport, BUT before the match we can extend it out to our heart's desire. We plan to use this to our advantage by having our manipulator extend out farther than we originally thought we could by unfolding our manipulator and locking it.

For this design we are prototyping we plan to use the new Rev Robotics Linear Lift by making use of their new extrusion. You can find their products here. 

Controls:
The electrical team began working on our second prototyping board. This will be the second of three planned for prototypes. Two will run off the old control system and VEX Cortexes and one will use the new control system. The new components will be transferred to our final robot once we build it. Programming continued review over the new code and control systems. All new programmers are required to write code for a sample robot with predefined parameters (4 motor drive, encoder, pneumatic brake, pneumatic launcher) before we get to the actual robot code.