MEET 3

Our third and final meet had to be the best. Starting off with our robot plexiglass side panels which we custom painted. We also used our time over the winter break to do a rebuild of our robot intake and outtake. We kept our drivetrain the same since we thought that was reliable enough. Our intake now consisted of two pivot motors in the center of our robot which we hoped would allow us to achieve double level hang (although we couldn’t use it in meet 3). We also had stringed slides that pushed our intake claw forward. We had a servo that spun our intake claw up and down which allowed it to raise in oder to enter the submersible. Our outtake system also consisted of a claw which had 270 degree freedom and allowed there to be a sample transfer system in order to score in the high basket. Some great parts of this design that we want to stick with are: metal claws (these allowed us to pick up with less precision and we also didn’t have problem like reprinting broken 3D parts. Some things we wanted to improve was our pivot motors (they caused out intake slide to extend at an angle causing them to trail the ground a certain extension limit, so we wanted to get rid of them), intake claw (It worked well, but was unable to pick up samples from the submersible. It picked up from the slides and wasn’t as efficient as we expected it to be), and our intake slides (we had numerous problems with string and just needed to find another way to extend). Overall, it was a GREAT Meet 3, we enjoyed scouting and talking to all the teams there! We ended off in 8th place.