Most of the parts are here

by AtomBot on February 8, 2012

Yikes we only have 2 weeks left. Most of the parts are here, we are still waiting on the sheet metal.  By the way GP Precision kicks but, they are laser cutting and bending all of the sheet metal we designed.  But we still have plenty to do; we are building a battery cart, a robot cart, cutting all of the conveyer parts at NextFab studios, painting the crate that the Havordford School donated, programming and building a door for the shop.  Yeah that right we need a door, the flap of plastic has ripped and we need a door.

Lessons learned this last night – the robot is dangerous.  We lost a pwm cable while testing the drive system because it wasn’t secured.  We need to do a better job of inspecting the robot before we run it for loose anything in the path of chains.

Lots of late nights from here on in.