Meeting and Practice 2-21-09

Attendance: Ian, Kevin, Tucker, Penelopy 

Kevin: In the morning I finished the soldering of the LED leads. We then wired the LEDs to the Protoboard. 

Ian: Kevin and I drove the robot and scored a large number of pucks to the triangle. I fixed the tubes when they pulled apart.  I wired the LEDs to the protoboard and realized why a couple of them didnt turn on.  The problem is a couple of the power leads are broken somewhere but the control signals work.  We decided that we could solder two power wires together because they are diodes and the signals only go one way. After soldering the wires all 8 lights work.  We are working on code to read and manipulate the touch sensors through the proto board.

Tucker: I trimmed the polycarb because it was getting in the wat of the wheels on the ramp.I also helped rebuild the arm.  I also made sure that the blog is correct and up to date.

Meeting 2-20-09

Attendence- Kevin, Ian

Agenda- Finish polycarb, Paint, mount Prototype Board

kevin: first we bent and drilled the polycarb. Then when we got to Ian's we painted it and finished some more of the detail work. Later we soldered the LEDs for the protoboard. We continued to make the team tee-shirts.

Meeting 2-19-08

Attendence- Ian, Kevin

Agenda- Cut and bend polycarb

I cut out the polycarb and started bending it.  i didn't have time to finish it though.-  Ian

I worked mainly on code but helped Ian with the bending.  -Kevin

Meeting 2-18-09

Attendence- Ian, Kevin, Tucker

Agenda- Arm Reinforcement, Polycarb.

i marked the polycarb to be cut.  -Kevin

I worked on reinforcing the arms with Tucker.  -Ian

Meeting 2-17-09

Attendence- Ian, Kevin, Penelope

Agenda- Finish gearing, test arm, build polycarb

We finished the gearing and tested the arm, but we didn't have time to do the polycarb.  -Ian

meeting 2-16-09

Attendence- Ian, Tucker, Kevin, Jared

Agenda- Finish the gearing, re-wire the servos, re-gear upper arm, test, make polycarb cutouts on paper

I worked on the arm gearing, rewired the servos for the bucket and worked on one of the polycarb sides.  -Tucker

I worked on the polycarb and upper arm gearing, and tested the arm.  -Ian

Meeting 2-13-09

Attendence-Ian, Jared, Penelope, Nick

I found out that the gearing on the lower arm is too high, so we are going to try and remount it to a 6-to-1 gear ratio.  -Ian

I worked with Ian to find a way to remount the lower arm motor so it doesn't kill itself. -Nick