Downloading The Start

What we have been working on from these past couple days up till now is downloading and converting our Vex Robotics Files over into SolidWorks as working parts. Its been a rather challenging task for such a simple thing, We are having difficulty downloading the parts correctly and efficiently but in all we sure of what we have to do. Our goal is to have our square bot in assembly and on its way to completion. Hopefully sometime next week we will be past our problems and have the issues resolved.

Edit: We are currently on the right path and now moving towards making the Squarebot via SolidWorks.

PoE Coursework

This week we have been introduced to the Principles of Engineering Coursework. The coursework can be found on the SPHS Engineering website. This weeks plan is to make it through the Vex Online Resources and review over the files. We were also shown Robot-C and the resources it has available for us. The Vex Resources includes the inventors guide which we have mentioned about in past posts.

CRYSTAL POWER!

Recently we learned about how the controllers for the robotics we are planning to build works.  One of the marvelous things that we learned about is how the Crystals work and how they are inputted into the controller and brain of the Robot. Not only that, but we found out that each Crystal has a number which is used to control a specific wavelength to help maintain constant control. It is helpful due to multiple people having similar Crystal but different wavelengths.

The Inventors Guide

Today we are going over the inventor guide on structure. The inventors guide is going to direct us on our first robot structure and how to draw it up on solid works. Its our first step for our team in the process of making a functional robot. The inventor guide is here.

Overview of Vex

Today we learn the parts of Vex Robotics. Vex teached us things such as motion, structure, power, sensor, control and logic. We learned what parts were good to use and which ones we should stay away from. Along with that we are trying to put our first weeks post on blogger. Link is here.

                                                          

Learning Blogger/ Algermaine joins

This week our group is going to learn how to do our team blogs! We have been creating and customizing our blogs to fit our teams traits. We have managed to create our blog but hope to finish it in the next couple of days.We also encountered things such as editing html and posting schedule post. We also have a new member!( HE WASN'T READY!!)