Progress





Welcome to the Progress Page of Team Kangaroo

Two days ago... We were give a challenge, a change to work on built a robot that was capable of lifting a can off the ground. We were given this challenge (click here) and the task to built this made machine in five days, and we were told that this would the leading up to the major assignment, a time place to do our major testings; so that was what we decided. We decided to use the design that I had from Team Breakdown and push the idea further, something like keep going that your coach tells.

//**Friday**//, May 13th, 2011: //Day One// of the Building Progress: Today we begin the planning and building progress, our team was able to keep the project that the Team Breakdown built. We decided to use the basic structure from the robot built by team breakdown and covert the roller gripe into modified version of horizontal roller, that will be capable of lifting pop cans.

We want use this opportunity to even push our design further, and make our robot even capable of storing multiple pop cans and deliver the cans. What want must from this project is to do push for the C challenge for programming something that we were not able to do on the last project and hopefully make the robot fully unanimous.

//**Monday**//, May 16th, 2011: //Day Two// of the Building Progress: Today we finalized a few details that we started on Friday, we decided to push toward the C hardware challenge in case that doesn't workout like the Team Giant Panda Experienced. We want to make most of everything and make sure that we don't make the same mistakes.We decided to recruit another person to our team to strengthen our team. We also decided to adjustment to the base of robot that we got from Team Breakdown.

//**Tuesday,**// May 17th, 2011: //Day Three// of the Building Progress: Today is the third-day that we have working on our robot. We worked on several more tasks that we have planed for the last day and we accomplished many of them.

However, we run into a few of issue this morning. The first thing we did this morning we checked the base of the robot. We waned to see if we could fix gear ratio that give us some issues during the last team challenge. We realized that the gear ratio we have taken from the squarebot could not be modified and can not be put on to higher gear ratio (without significant amount of work and replacing the basic base of the robot).

As the day went along, our time was spent much more efficiently. We finished the modifying the 12 inch roller to sixteen inch roller (we just need to reattach the motor to it), and we also can up with new design that would allow us to pick up pop cans. We hope that we could finish the robot tomorrow and start working on the programing portion of level C.

//**Wednesday**//, May 18th, 2011: //Day Four// of the Building Progress: Like most days, we begin our routine with finishing on want have been working on the past day and debugging our designs from the last day. Today we begin our day with finishing of our robot designes. We also got a chance to learn more about the different types of gripes. We learned what it really means to have a two stage lift.

Today we accomplished a quite few tasks, however we did not go as far as we hoped. We were able to finish the rollers that are used to suck in the cans and almost finished modifying the rollers that will take the can vertically up. We still have a quite a lot of work to do for attaching the whole mechanism together.

We will need more time to work on putting gears in place, and try our best to reduce the friction. We also need time to work programing our robot to fully antonymous and programing the robot and just fixing small bugs. Looking forward we are in a good spirit that our robot will be successful and will work well.

//**Thursday**//, May 19th, 2011: //Day Five// of the Building Progress: Today is Thursday, May 19th a shortened day. We weren't able to get that much done. We spent most our time working on our robot finishing attaching the motor to the roller gripe and working on a way designing better connection to connect the roller the life.

Today we officially begin to work on the programming, we want to make our robot fully antonymous capable of identifying the cans and navigating to the can and lifting the can.

//**Friday**//, May 20th, 2011: //Day Six// of the Building Progress Today we begin day six of our building progress, we begin working on attaching the robot together. However, soon after we finished attaching the first part of the roller wheels we noticed that our robot had difficulties pulling the cans up, however, it didn't have any issues pulling the can back down. We were a bit divided on how we should fix the problem (issue). We thought about spacing the roller bars out a bit more or increase the torque of the motors. We thought that the roller bars were increased in length, it was similar to our first project.

In the previous project the lack of torque made the roller quite very soon, and by increasing torque. We manage to solve the issue, however when we increased the length of the roller we should have also increased the gear ratio thus increasing the torque. However today we did not have enough time to finish of the project today. We have extended our due date longer.

We also begin to think about alternation system to fix the robot, such as using extension bar.


 * //Monday,//** May 23rd, 2011:Holiday

//**Tuesday**//, May 24th, 2011: Day Seven of the Building Progress Today we begin the building process with finishing the finishing the work that we did get to finish on Friday. Today after a long work session we manage to finish the robot, however we realized that the motor on the robot did work as we thought. We tried different ways to fix the issue including taking the robot apart, but after several tries we put on an additional motor on to our robot, we tried again and it worked.

We begin to implement the modifications to our robot today.

//**Wednesday,**// May 26th, 2011: We took a deep breath as there was no school today (the second day of the Strike)

//**Thursday**//, May 27th, 2011: We took a deep breath gasp as there was no school today (the third day of the Strike)

//**Friday,**// May 27th, 2011: Day Eight of the Building Progress Today is the eighth day of the building progress, after succession of long delays and time lost from holidays. We restarted our project, today we accomplished not as much of what we hoped to do the last day. It has come to almost an concise that we bored of the project. Although we were ahead of the rest of the class, the glitches have taken the better of us.

//**Monday,**// May 28th, 2011: Day Eight of the Building Progress Today on the ninth day of the building progress the ever extending finish line is finally hear, we could smell it and taste it. Today official finished our project. We successful test our project. It is the final prize in a road that is filled with long delays and many challenges. It is simple to say that we are finally finished. The product that we produced worked great, it could dance with the music and take cans in and out.

It is truly an amazing project please check out some of our other pages to see the greatness of it: Pictures and Photos