1/29/11

Today Eddie, Elizabeth, Martin, and I worked on cutting the chain for the transmissions. Also we mounted the chain. Then we did that we went to our play room to test it out, it turns out that one side was a lot faster than the other so we spent a couple hours trouble shooting. Turns out it was an electrical error. One of the motor speed controllers wasn't working properly, so we had to replace it. After that I helped Bianca with the electrical for Dulce.

1/25/11

Today I've been helping Eddie make components for the arm and clean up the shafts for the transmissions a little. Also I have been helping out a tiny bit with electrical. For electrical, today Isabel and I did some soldering for the battery connectors.

1/13/11

Today a couple of us from the team went to pick up the fiberglass from the maintenance department. After we got all the fiberglass we ordered a few of people from the team started cutting down the 20 foot pieces into 10 foot pieces. As soon as the pieces need for the frame were cut down to size Eddie, Elizabeth, Shamir, Dillon, and I started cutting pieces for the frame. Also Dillon, Jorge(Timmy), and Carlos started working on the gussets for the frame.

1/12/11

Today during luch Martin, Eddie, Ricardo, Elizabeth, and I built a quick prototype arm. After school we tested the arm to see how well it could pick up the tubes without having to stop. We saw that it was not only good but fast at picking up the tubes without stopping.