Monday, January 8, 2018

Day 2: Strategy + Prototyping

Our team spent today deciding which subsystems we should make. After about an hour of discussion, we decided on including the following subsystems:
  • Drivebase
  • Power Cube Manipulator
  • Intake
  • A low lift/launcher (for switch)
  • Programming
  • Electrical
(A Power Cube Manipulator would move a Power Cube around inside the robot. An Intake would bring a cube into the robot from the outside).
We'll be prototyping the Manipulator, Intake, and Launcher along with the following subsystems:
  • Climber
  • A high lift/launcher (for both the scale and switch)
After prototyping, we'll decide if we want a climber, a high lift/launcher, or both.
We then began the prototyping process (yay?). We drew many sketches of potential designs. We came up with some ideas ourselves and copied learned from other team's ideas from the past.
GO ROBOTOTES!!!