Today, Julia wore brown and white converse to the lab. When she came back, her converse were tropical rain blue. What was she doing? She was painting our wonderful, awesome, almost finished CRATE!!! It was a messy job, but in the end our awesomeness overcame the messiness and we finished painting the interior and exterior of the ENTIRE crate!! During our oh so productive day, we also made good progress on the bumpers. We decided that we’d have four separate bumpers instead of two bumpers that would wrap around the corners of our robot(because of complexity issues). We also decided where we would put the pins!! As I am writing this blog, I can hear the loud whine of metal being cut, which often makes people stop what they are doing, peer over the loft’s wall, cringe and then cover their ears . Why is this metal being cut? Because we are making the super-frame of our robot!! To continue with a description of our productivity, I should probably tell you that we pressed the bearings into the hubs and screwed the cams for the drive chain onto the chassis. Also we are making vinyl stickers. Why? To decorate our BREATH TAKING almost finished crate and of course, our ROBOT! We roughly sketched out where we would place the stickers, and made templates for some stickers using adobe photoshop and illustrator. This was a painstaking process, but the stickers will look AMAZING once we actually cut them out of vinyl!! All in all a thoroughly productive day. This however does not mean that tomorrow we can sit down and do nothing. We still need to assemble the substructure for the welder, finish the kicker and hanger designs and then there is the electrical board and of course the drive assembly and programming. As we are approaching the end of build each day will have to be more productive than the last.
Julia & Maya
