Arthur's been on his game today like whoa. He dropped 2.4 lbs off our chubby-bunny preliminary model through some analysis of the load paths and material selection changes. Heavens yes.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Schedule!
Check it out homeboys and girls:
The team has posted a schedule of operations which culminates in our domination of the competition. It's a Google Doc spreadsheet accessable through the link at the top right of the blog page.
The team has posted a schedule of operations which culminates in our domination of the competition. It's a Google Doc spreadsheet accessable through the link at the top right of the blog page.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
A First Look
Here are some pictures of our preliminary bot design:
The primary unit and the deployable defensive mechanism
A bottom view
The left side view
Its on, fools
Welcome to the Team 14: "Im On Top" blog!
We are a four man team competing in the second annual SlotBot competition at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. In this competiton we will be producing a mobile, remote-controlled, tracked entrant which will dominate the upper part of the SlotBot arena. The entrant will focus on the collection of squash balls by means of a powered rotating head and and hopper system. We will also have a deployable slot defense mechanism.
Members of our team are:
Brad Costa
Arthur Newman
Nate Matheny
Peter Chun
We are a four man team competing in the second annual SlotBot competition at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. In this competiton we will be producing a mobile, remote-controlled, tracked entrant which will dominate the upper part of the SlotBot arena. The entrant will focus on the collection of squash balls by means of a powered rotating head and and hopper system. We will also have a deployable slot defense mechanism.
Members of our team are:
Brad Costa
Arthur Newman
Nate Matheny
Peter Chun
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