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Our blog documents our robotics experience during the coronavirus pandemic: change, connection, and community.
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Team Snailbot: Attaching Two of the Mechanisms
After all the separate components were finished, we worked on finally putting them together. We decided that the most efficient and safe...
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Feb 15, 20211 min read
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Team Scissor Lift: First Week of Building
This week, I started building the scissor lift! I began by organizing my parts in order to keep track of my components, since without...
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Jan 25, 20211 min read
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Team Snailbot: First Week of Building
This past week we have been working on building our robot from the parts distributed to our houses. Each team member worked on a...
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Jan 19, 20213 min read
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A Little Break
Hey everyone! Right now we are going to take a bit of a break from the blog. We are still working hard, however you may not see as...
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Nov 15, 20201 min read
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Picking Up Parts!
Sarah picked up various parts this week to begin putting together the Snailbot her group designed on Fusion. We are excited about the...
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Nov 1, 20201 min read
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Transition to Real Robots!
This week we are going to start the process to building real robots! With the approval of our coach and administrators, I was allowed...
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Oct 26, 20201 min read
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Putting together the Lift Bot
Now that we've finished with designing the different components of the robot on Autodesk, we can now start to piece the robot together!...
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Sep 6, 20201 min read
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Putting Together the Snailbot Design
With all the CADs of its individual subsystems finished, we can now put together the full design of the snailbot! We took a final look at...
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Aug 30, 20201 min read
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Finishing Individual Subsystems
This week the snailbot team got a lot done. They were able to modify the back of the vertical intake so that it was wider and fit the...
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Aug 23, 20202 min read
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Learning Fusion Part 6 [Challenges]
Although we aren’t physically connecting parts, building designs in Fusion still poses some challenges. Firstly, it’s difficult to get...
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Aug 16, 20202 min read
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Learning Fusion Part 5 [Adding Chain]
To start off, yes, this needs its own post. Compared to everything else in fusion adding chain is surprisingly hard, and mostly for...
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Aug 9, 20202 min read
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Learning Fusion Part 4 [Sketches Basics]
Now that we know more about the basics, it is time to utilize some more complicated tools that Fusion has to offer. Sketches are useful...
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Aug 2, 20202 min read
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Learning Fusion Part 3 [Joints]
Origins in Fusion are connected using joints, which essentially "snap" together parts using origins as a point of reference (it is a lot...
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Jul 26, 20202 min read
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Learning Fusion Part 2 [Origins]
For ever part you can add origins, which act as landmarks on the model. Common places to put origins are in the center of different...
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Jul 19, 20202 min read
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Starting in Fusion
This week we started to work on our prototypes in Fusion. Additionally, we continued to prepare certain parts by adding joint origins and...
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Jul 11, 20202 min read
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Fusion Practice
This week we practiced everything we learned in Fusion. We first added in a ton of origins for the parts, because as I mentioned before,...
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Jul 5, 20202 min read
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Individual Subsystems
This week each person drew out their design for their individual subsystem, in order to get a better idea of how it worked before they...
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Jun 27, 20201 min read
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Learning Fusion Part 1 [Overview]
This week I researched on the vex forums to find out what the best software was for 3D modeling robot designs in VEX. Many people...
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Jun 15, 20202 min read
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Finishing Designs
It’s robot design day! Today, we aimed to finalize a design for our robot. Before meeting, we had all individually come up with drawings...
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Jun 7, 20205 min read
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Drawing out Ideas
This week, we worked our designs and making them more detailed. Previously, we brainstormed our first designs (mostly just general...
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May 30, 20202 min read
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