Take a look at the progress we've made on our first robot. We have the basics down, including the drivetrain, ball collector, the feeder to get the balls up to the launcher, and are moving forward from here.
We're waiting for more parts that have yet to arrive, but we've used what we could to build a prototype launcher. We cannot exactly experiment on the actual robot yet because we are not at the point of cutting parts (which would be needed to mount it), but the un-attached launcher did well on its own, able to launch the balls reliably, although not at as high a velocity as we would like. Currently, we're using balls that are more stiff than the actual competition balls, but with a similar size to keep our dimensions close what they'll need to be. It's possible that it'll deliver different results with the actual balls, but we'll only know when everything we need will arrive.
Also, it has been confirmed that we'll be able to spectate the competitions this week on February 12 and February 13. February 12 will be the university competition, and February 13 will be the high school competition. It has not been decided yet on which days we will go to observe, but we look forward to viewing how everything will be like!
We're waiting for more parts that have yet to arrive, but we've used what we could to build a prototype launcher. We cannot exactly experiment on the actual robot yet because we are not at the point of cutting parts (which would be needed to mount it), but the un-attached launcher did well on its own, able to launch the balls reliably, although not at as high a velocity as we would like. Currently, we're using balls that are more stiff than the actual competition balls, but with a similar size to keep our dimensions close what they'll need to be. It's possible that it'll deliver different results with the actual balls, but we'll only know when everything we need will arrive.
Also, it has been confirmed that we'll be able to spectate the competitions this week on February 12 and February 13. February 12 will be the university competition, and February 13 will be the high school competition. It has not been decided yet on which days we will go to observe, but we look forward to viewing how everything will be like!
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