First thing into the meeting our inventor gurus began creating a chain tensioner, I'd ask what it's for but they're much too deeply concentrated on a pair of dial calipers and their computer screens to respond. I'm going to go on the safe side and say it's to tension the chain that we are going to have on our robot. The inventor gurus currently have a nice chassis mocked up with a feel for the placement of the components and mechanisms that we currently have designed. It's looking nice!
At the same time a massive body of students migrated to the aviation wing of our school where our soon-to-be arena is located, to lay out some carpet and the bumps. They have a nice assembly line going to create the bumps. They can now easily mass assemble the bumps. They've just got the tunnel, the ball returner, and a few goals to go and we'll have a complete field!
An hour into the meeting, a group of students and Coach got together and began assembling the kit gearbox to see how it worked and just for future reference just in case we did end up using it. Another group of students also branched off and worked on creating a blanket of air for the vacuum. The idea will be easy to implement if our rollers do not work out in the end.
Unlike previous years, we have even begun creating our bill of materials early and we might have an accurate estimate on the weight of our robot in a day or two.
At this time we'd like to take a short moment to thank our sponsors Continental Fabricators, Inc, Emerson, Boeing, and AT&T for the financial support and Ranken Tech for help fabricating parts like our chassis and other metal parts that we cannot fabricate with the tools we have.
~ Chi
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