What we accomplished yesterday:
- Sam and John focused on finishing up encoder wiring and refining soldering technique. The last encoder wire is almost finished
- Christine and I attached the cRIO and a relay to the electronics board and finished up all the wiring
- Dong Hwa and Endri worked with a small group of girls to wire up a solenoid valve and run pneumatic tube to actuate a cylinder. Their test setup can move the cylinder in and out by manually applying voltage to the valve.
- I'm not sure what Matt was up to this week
- The programmers were looking into control of the compressor
Notes and Plans
- I found the pressure cutoff switch everyone was looking for and put it (and a few other pneumatic parts I found) into the pneumatics box
- We need to integrate the compressor and tanks onto the robot
- There are a couple of minor wiring changes to the electronics board (regarding 12V supply to the DSC and Pneumatics breakout) that I'm going to sneak in and do this week
- The parts for the arm need to be machined. Matt's taking care of this
- I'm going to try to find out if we can get a few copies of SolidWorks for girls and mentors who are interested
Next Week
- Electrical can finally attach the electronics board to the chassis
- Electrical can connect up all the encoders and turn the drive train over to the programmers
- The programmers can work with the encoders as soon as the robot is ready
- We need to find a place on the chassis to attach the compressor and tanks
- Mechanical needs to finish machining/assemble the arm
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