End of Week 3

What we accomplished

• Inserted the motor into our tug a war bot
• Inserted the necessary baron flats
• Made progress on the solid works

This week we made significant progress on our bot, physically and on solid works. However, next week we are aiming to take a break from solidworks so we can focus on the robot. We are constantly thinking of ways to gain an advantage. We aim to be finished in the next few weeks. 

Start of Week 3

Goals for this week

• Insert the motors into our robot
• Decide what wheels will be best
• Begin drawing our robot on solidworks

We learned this week that we will have to create a diagram of our robot on Solidworks. We allowed one member to focus on the SolidWorks while the other two continued building. Although the other teams are waiting until the end to do it, we know how time consuming solidworks can be, One of our members has a speciality at building, so we are confident that we will finish both task with enough time to relax afterwards. 

End of Week 2

What we accomplished

• We finished most of the squarebot
• We finished the base of our actual tug a war bot
• We learned what good ratios are for building good torque

This week was a busy week for us. Our group split up and built two different robots at the same time. Our squarebot was being built so we could decided what wheels will be best to use for our tug a war bot. The smallbot is almost finished and should be able to be tested next week. As for our tug a war bot, we have the base completed and we put in the gears in a form that will give us decreased speed, but increased torque. 

Start of Week 2

Goals for this week

• Figure out a basis for our tug a war robot
• Figure out the best torque ratio
• Figure out what wheels to use

This week we learned that we were going to be playing tug a war on the asphalt outside. We realized that we would have to figure out which wheels would be the most effective. In order to do this, we are building a smallbot so we can test out the different wheels on it. We also learned that torque is a big part of a pulling robot, so we have to use gear ratios that give us the best amount of torque

End of Week 1

What we accomplished

• Finished sorting all the screws & nuts
• Finished sorting all the Vex Robotics Supplies
• Finished sorting all the Tetra Supplies

This week we finally finished organizing and sorting through all the Vex Robotics and Tetra supplies. We also finished taking apart the robots from last year. It took us 4 months to build them, and only 4 days to take them apart. We learned that we will be doing a tug a war challenge, so will we begin looking at ideas. 

Start Of Week 1

Welcome to our engineering blog, today we are getting into groups of 3 and creating new blogs on Blogger. We just finished organising robot parts and got into our new groups. We will begin soon designing the robot on solid works. Tug of war challenge coming soon!