Mahr’s Metal Beavers
So it’s that the news,
We have shipped the robot, now it’s all about button making.
Buttons and getting people’s permission slips filled out and returned.
And working on this thing,
As I kept whinning that we needed to post things but I’ve only just
started today.
Anyways,
that’s about all we’re upto.
Maybe we’ll post more in the mean time to Comp…
Probably not,
The robot shipped several days ago. We were sad to see it go… parting is such sweet sorrow. We’re planning what to do when we get to the competition and have some more time to work on the bot. There’s hybrid mode code to be tested, motors to be changed out, and so on.
We’re into button production full speed ahead. There are 4 different styles of buttons, but if you want to see them, you’ll have to visit us at the competition. We also have some comics in the works that should appear on our website soon.
As the shipment date gets closer, we hurry to finish our robot. The arm is nearing completion, and the pneumatic actuator is going well. We are starting to run out of room on the board itself, and therefore searching for safe mounting room elsewhere.
On Tuesday we tested driving the robot around chairs, and found many known and unknown errors. Most of the people on the team got to test drive the robot, and only a few small parts fell off at random. We have also mostly figured out the status light! yay!
