Good morning JHM nation, today the robot experienced all sorts of problem: from the shooter malfunctioning to the autonomous getting messed up.  With the absence of Ethan and Dylan, Evan and I had to solve these problems on our own.  The autonomous was an easy fix and...

Good morning JHM nation, today we tweaked our shooter to the new and improved model.  The old model used a big slip gear that took forever to shoot, but the new one involves a smaller, wider slip gear that acts as a rapid fire shooter.  Evan and I removed the old shoot...

Good morning JHM nation, today we decided to remove our previous ball picking up device because of the problems it was causing.  In order to compensate with the absence of a ball picker upper we decided to the preloaded ball to hit the flags.  This method will guarante...

Good morning JHM nation, today we basically spent the whole time in the arena practicing.  Dylan practiced all the different challenges of the midterm until he felt comfortable with his time on all of them.  Although the ball picking up device wasn't working too well a...

Good morning JHM nation, today we began to time our selves for the midterm challenge.  Timing ourselves created a sense of urgency and being on your toes, Dylan didn't mess up too much during the timed attempts but there was a decent amount of rust that needed to be fi...

Good morning JHM nation, today we placed our near complete robot into the ring to practice for the midterm.  We nominated Dylan as our driver, so he was the main one in the arena unless he needed me or Evan to adjust the shooter or the arm.  We haven't began timing our...

Good morning JHM nation, today we finally designed a device to effectively pickup the ball.  We used two gears and separated them with collars, we then wrapped them in rubber bands so they would be able to pick up the balls as fast and efficient as possible.  I must gi...

Good morning JHM nation, today we discovered a new way to pick up cone while trying to find a new ball grabber device.  The device we constructed involved the use of the light, flexible pieces rather than the heavy, stagnant ones.  The device made the robot pick up the...

Good morning JHM nation, today we began work on rebuilding the entire robot to be as efficient and mobile as possible.  We tweaked the gear ratio in order to increase torque so we will be able to drive up the obstacle.  We started experimenting with different ball capt...

Good morning JHM nation, today we decided to take apart our entire robot due to our old design being incapable of completing the challenges efficiently.  We took off everything but the chassis and decided to use a different device to pick up the balls.  Next class we w...