Week 6 Accomplishments

This week we participated in the tug of war challenge and won. We had an in depth discussion about our robot what worked and what didn't work, and stealing.We also talked about our teamwork, how we assigned task and what we would like to change for next time.

Week 6 Goals

This week was the culmination of all our hard work. We hoped to do  our best during the Tug of War Challenge and that's what we did. We ended up getting first place in the challenge.

Week 5 Accomplishments

This week we modified our robot by adding more weight. We also continued to update our blog and do some test runs on the mat against other robots.

3-D Printed Logo FAIL!!!!

We wanted to print a logo for our group to put on the front of the robot. It is supposed to look like the one in the Week 4 accomplishments but the printer messed it up. We are going to redo the logo without the balls in between the squares.

1st try with rafts and supports

2nd and 3rd try without rafts or supports.

Week 5 Goals

This week our goals are to destroy every robot in the tug of war challenge.
Our group would like to reprogram robot so it goes the right way.
Re-print the Rebel Robotics logo.

Week 4 Accomplishments

So this week we totally focused on making adjustments that would make our robot better such as trying to add more weight. We made the solidworks design of our team logo and continued updating the blog.

Above:  Rendered Rebel Robotics Logo

Our logo in the process of printing on the MakerBot

Week 4 Goals

So this week we hope to continue modifying by adding things such as apparatuses to stop our robot from being pulled over the line adding and participating in tug-of-war matches. We also hope to continue updating our blog and 3D print our teams logo.

Will thinking hard about the adjustment we should make this week.

Will working on tightening collars and adjusting gear spacing.

Week 3 Accomplishments

So this week we finished building The White Scorpion(robot) along with coding and we got to do a few matches of the tug-of-war challenge. The other Tetrix robots are too heavy for us to pull them. Cash money attached a winch to theirs.

Some field action of The White Scorpion.

Week 3 Goals

This week, we plan on setting the rest of the drive train and setting it up on the ready made robot frame, as well as code the brain to drive properly and finalizing the gear ratio to deliver a mix of torque and speed. The pace is picking up as the week closes and we need to have our robot ready and tested by the week's end. Tension's thick.
                                                       

Above: Will and Garrett up the drive train on the frame and adding our wheels 

while  Masen is coding the brain.

Week 2 Accomplishments

First week and we finally built the drive train and and frame, and going through our box for any other useful part to make ideal tug of war robot. We finalized the gear ratio but we will make future modifications, it's a combination of torque and speed meant for all around competition.
                                       

Above: Both left and right drive train completed and

 ready to be screwed onto the frame.

Below: Putting the drive trains on the frame with assorted screws and nuts 

as well as readjusting the collars on the robot

Week 1 Tug of War

First week and our main priorities are to completely deconstruct the robots from last year and to build a completely different robot from the same robot. The frame and bearing flats are being constructed by Masen while  Garrett and Will both come up with a sufficient gear ratio as well as actually building the drive train out of mismatching collars and screws as well as an assorted pile of axles and gears. 

                                    Will dismantling the old drive train's gears and motors

while Masen crafts a 17x17 frame for the new robot.

   Sorting through our assortment of parts for valuable parts for use
 or for bargaining and making sure none are stolen. 

Don't want to give the other teams an advantage