Robotic's Meeting Improvements

Hello again!

I tell you guys that I got to do a lot of my projects this week.  For my statistics project I handed out the surveys to different classes and I got them back within this week! The good thing about having many of them is that the more data points I have the better results I can get, I suppose. I been tutoring at the math zone for a couple of weeks now but this week I got do help more than one student; I like to help J

But what I liked the most about this week was the robotics meeting. Originally, I had sat down with some students and we were trying to come up with a new design for a mini bot that could be used as a backup robot for the upcoming VEX competition in March. Although I was not planning on it, I ended up spending most of the time helping another team mate do some adjustments to an existing robot. We made various improvements. First of all, the aluminum arm (that will be used to pick up the bean bags) was altered. We removed some pieces off and rebuilt it; making it lighter. We also verified places were parts were not symmetric which could ultimately affect the center of gravity of the robot. In addition, we hooked it up and verified that all the changes we had made had not affected the robot’s functionality. Luckily, it worked out great! Though it is not programmed yet not it is finished, we made good advances and I cannot wait to see it on the field.

As you know Kristina is also in robotics, which is awesome. She was assigned to come up with a design that withholds stability. She asked if I could help her out but unfortunately I will not be attending PC next semester. So, if any of you know how to use AutoCAD, know a little bit of programming or are dying to help her out, go right ahead; I am pretty sure she would love some help J

I leave you with an image of a “dremel;” tool I got to use in robotics this week to cut some excess of aluminum off the robot! By the way, I tried to incorporate a picture of the mentioned robot but I believe it has been prohibited to post them on the blog. Stay tuned...

--Yany