Finally drove on the platform!!

What we did today:

Lindsey took off the ball shooter to make the weight distribution proportional. This allowed me to practice and drive on the platform.

Next steps...

• We will either make a catapult to shoot the balls or make a ball shooter on the flipping arm
• We will also rewire the whole thing and find a place for the cortex
• We still need to write autonomous code

Resources for other VEX robots:

Here are code templates that include the autonomous one so we can use that in competition.

Code Templates

Moved wheels and tried to get on platform

What we did today:

Lindsey took off all the wheels and moved them lower on the base so the robot is now able to
drive onto the platform. She also attempted to drive onto the platform, but the robot tipped over.

Next steps...

• We need to add weight to the bottom of the robot so it won't tip over
• or we could take off the top of the ball shooter to make it lighter and smaller on top
• We also need to fix the ball shooter and make it a dual fly wheel shooter

Other resources:

Here is a video that we were thinking of basing our shooter off of. It is better than our current design because the ball rolls into the shooter instead of being lifted up to it. We will lift up the ball at first, then it will roll down the ramp to the shooter.

Shooter video

Resources for other VEX robots:

Here are code templates that include the autonomous one so we can use that in competition.

Code Templates

Lots of research

What we did today:

Today, Lindsey researched better ideas for the ball shooter and took off some wheels to move them lower.
This will allow us to drive up on the platform. Charity researched the autonomous code and how to do it.
With that, we will be able to get more points in competition.

Next steps...

• We will redo our base
• we will take off the wheels and move them lower so we can drive onto the platform and get more points
• We will fix our ball shooter
• we will keep the elevator, but it will drop the ball onto a ramp and feed into two wheels to shoot out
• We will write the autonomous code
• we will figure out how to do the controller for the autonomous part and get the autonomous code template

Other resources:

Here is a video that we were thinking of basing our shooter off of. It is better than our current design because the ball rolls into the shooter instead of being lifted up to it. We will lift up the ball at first, then it will roll down the ramp to the shooter.

Shooter video

Resources for other VEX robots:

Here are code templates that include the autonomous one so we can use that in competition.

Code Templates