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WEEK 9/29/14

WEEK 9/29/14 END OF THE WEEK

We finished the evaluations of each group, now we separated between the people who want to work on the new vex challenge, and the people who don't. For the people who don't we have to come up with a new idea for a robot challenge collectively as a class.

This is us conversing among our selves to come up with a new challenge.

 This is us awaiting selection upon our new teams

9/29/14 week goals

WEEK 9/29/14
GOALS OF THE WEEK:
This week, we already finished the robot competition, so we came together and talked about our individual robots and why we made them the way we did and also things wed liked/disliked about the competition. our goals for the week are to finish group evaluations and to select new teams.

This is Zach talking about our robot.

weekly progress 9/26/14 LAST POST

Our robot (the underdog) won 3rd place in the contest, despite us assuming we would come in last place. Our robot went 2-2 losing to the butterflies and another group I can't remember the name of.

We are now switching groups and getting new people for a new challenge, we'll miss the Super Saiyan Clutch robot.

yunnar holding our 3rd place robot

dis us dismantling the robot

9/22/14 Goals of the week

It's the week we've been waiting for, starting today we will be competing against the other groups in Tug-Of-War. Our robot is one of the underdogs but we're hoping to pull strong and not finish dead last, we're looking at being top 3 in the competition at least because we've worked very hard on our robot, and have a very unique build style, with a sled and a narrow chassis. We're looking to crush the SPHS butterflies and make Jaret Insel cry.

2/4 of the $uper $aiyan $quad throwing up our gang sign before the competition.

The Saiyan robot lined up for it's run against "insert team name here"

9/19/14 Weekly progress REPORT`

Mr Martin is not with us, and neither is our lead builder Andreas. But we're not going to take a day off to chill and screw around like the other groups. Today we're ending a great week of work where we
1. Completed our robots frame and sled attachments
2. Fixed and added big motors to our robot to make it work.
3. Programmed the brain to run the motors.
4. Charged and found batteries to use.
We are now 100% ready for tug of war and hope to crush the competition here are some photos i've taken of our robot and batteries:

Here is the COMPLETED robot with wheels, big motors, gear ratios, and other attachments.

Here is the COMPLETED robot underside, where you can marvel at the sled idea and get a better view of the gear ratios ingeniously designed by our lead builder Andreas.

9/15/14 Weekly goals

Our goals for this week as the mighty SUPER SAIYAN SQUAD are to finish the blogs and focus hard on getting big motors built so our robot can run and flourish, we're also going to make some modifications to our sled design to make it more efficient in the tug of war challenge, while adjusting some gear ratios to make a smoother transition when we move around in the tug of war.
and finally, CRUSH THE COMPETITION.

Andreas putting the finishing touches on the wires needed for the large motors!

Gunnar and andrew installing the new working large motors to our robot!

9/12/14 week progress

Our group finished building the robot, and now we're fixing motors to use on our bot.

Andreas is working HARD to make big motors available for our ROBOT so we can get a nice grade and CRUSH the competition.

Screwing on the final touches to our sexy robot

Gunnar giving a big smile because we're finished

9/8/14 GOALS of the week

Our goals this week are to replace our terrible gear ratio and find some working big motors for our sled-like robot.

The bot with the brain, sled parts, and little motors attached for testing

Gunnar "working hard" on the robot

End of week 9/5/14

We were given 2 weeks to complete this robot extra, so we are working hard to finish it and work out the bugs. We have to use small motors because all the big motors are broken for now.

The underside of the robot complete with sled and grip wheels

Another view of andreas working on the under side of the robot

Gunnar "Sexy" Swanson taping the grip to the wheels

9/2/14 progress and accomplishments

Jack our main builder probably switched out, now we have to either restart or build upon is ideas.
Andreas is now the new lead builder.

Andreas adding the gear ratio and wheels, we hope to finish this robot very soon.

This is our rival group we are hoping to crush in the tug of war competition.

8/29 friday post

Today i was the only one here, so i made the wheels and updated the blog today, i also researched if fishing lead weights were TCS approved for use on our robot, they are.

Here is the chassis, the wheels with patented grip, and the big motors.

We are also well informed that weights are *LOWKEY* TCS approved. We will be using them.

First blog post. 8/26/14

The $$$(super saiyan squad) is working hard to disassemble a terrible robot and make it into a good tug of war robot. Jack is getting transfered out of the class soon, so we're bringing in an expert robot builder, Andreas Sarris! He's going to be helping us build our robot and expanding on Jacks chassis idea and gearbox.

Jack working on the old chassis

Here's the updated chassis