Spetsnaz 2.0 Friday, April 27th, 2018

Friday, April 27th, 2018

Sadly, we are still working on the figure 8. Our major problems being how wide our turns our and the inability to finish the course without a collision. We estimate to be completely done with this challenge around mid-may.

Spetsnaz 2.0 Monday, April 23rd, 2018

Monday, April 23rd, 2018

Today We worked on the figure 8 once again, simply trying to get it all to work. We've decided to scrap our previous code and completely build it back up from the ground up. Hopefully by the end of April we will finally be done. 

Spetsnaz 2.0 Thursday, April 19th, 2018

Thursday, April 19th, 2018

SO we continue to make changes to the robot trying to make this figure-eight actually come to fruition. Sadly we were not able to complete our task due to our batteries being on low charge and only able to move the robot to a certain point. We have since then put the batteries to charge and are ready to test out our fresh code the following week.

Spetznaz 2.0 Tuesday, April 17th, 2018

Tuesday, April 17th, 2018

Today, we ran a series of tests to see if our programming has finally been able to solve the figure eight challenge. Unfortunately it hasn't and we will need to review it the next time we meet. Also to add to our woes the handle for our robot came apart and the machine suffered some damage that needed attending to quickly.

Spetsnaz 2.0 Friday, April 13th, 2018

Friday, April 13th, 2018

Today we finished our SolidWorks assignment having the robot fully represented inside the program. We still have issues with the Figure-eight, specifically the last turn before it completes the figure-eight. Next week we will work towards finishing this challenge and taking on the next one.

Spetsnaz 2.0 Monday, April 9th, 2018

Monday, April 9th, 2018

While I was working on finishing up the blogs, Joey was acquiring the SolidWorks parts. We are editing the Figure-eight program to finally complete its task. Hopefully by Friday we will have the program finally finished and ready to go.

Spetsnaz 2.0 Friday, April 6th, 2018

Friday, April 6th, 2018

So we figured out the problem with our programming is that our robot needed extra lines of code to help it make the turns we needed. It was about this time we came to the realization we had to program 2 figure 8's for our robot to do, thus we'll continue that next week.

Spetsnaz 2.0 Monday, April 2nd, 2018

Monday, April 2nd, 2018

We, are attempting to finalize our plans to complete the figure 8 task. Programming it t turn at the right time around the chairs is our biggest enemy. We'll have to revisit this problem the next time we meet, and fix the programming.

Spetsnaz 2.0 Thursday, March 22nd, 2018

Thursday, March 22nd, 2018

Today we started on the figure-eight. We've gotten relatively far on our first attempt. For ease of carrying the robot, we attached a handle to it by using one of the bent axles.When we get back from Spring Break we will make more edits to the Figure-eight program.

Spetsnaz 2.0 Tuesday, March 20th, 2018

Tuesday, March 20th, 2018

Today we worked on fixing parts of the robot. We realized the axles for the wheels were too far out and was catching onto the chair. We repaired it by pushing the axles in more. Next time we'll start on the figure-eight.

Spetsnaz 2.0 Friday, March 16th, 2018

Friday, March 16th , 2018

We came back to the Robot, connecting the controller to show that it works with the robot. We then Drove it over to Martin, and he told us to start programming it to make a figure 8. We finally fixed the problem with the chassis of the robot so we are ready to continue next week.

Spetsnaz 2.0 Monday, March 12th, 2018

Monday, March 12th , 2018

We Started Building and Assembling our robot, We chose the Claw Bot due to the desire to challenge ourselves. We got all the necessary materials to build the Robot. Sadly While assembling it we ran into some problems with the chassis, we had put the sides on backwards,so we have to come back next class to assess and fix the problem.

Spetsnaz 2.0 Thursday, March 8, 2018

Spetsnaz

Thursday, March 8th, 2018

We continued working on building the robots on SolidWorks. While we were doing that, we were also creating our blog website and entering our blog posts into the website. We had a bit of problems in the beginning but we managed to resolve them with team work and effort. We will continue to work on building our robots on SolidWorks next upcoming weeks.