End of the week

Happy Halloween from the Super Saiyan Squad!

At the end of this week we have accomplished two things on our robot. We refurbished and finalized our gear box and we have finally finished our robot arm and attached our ball scoope to the end of our arm.

our finalized robot arm.

Our gear box.

Start of the week

Monday 10/27/14
Last Thursday,  a Co-Founder of the Super Saiyan Squad was removed from our group, his name is Andrew Leacock.
Andrew is a great kid, a very smart kid and an important member of our team. It's a shame that we will be without Andrew for the remainder of this year but he will be remembered by the Super Saiyan Squad.

In other news: we got new vex parts in today and we are looking forward to playing with our new shiny toys!!!

Our goals for the week are to finish the arm for the robot and to make it function properly.

Goals for the Week

Our Goals for this week are to finish building our robot arm. Then we are going to program our robot to get it ready for competition. 

END OF WEEK 3

Week 3:

For this week we finished building the structure for our arm, and began the construction of the actual arm itself, next week we plan to finish the entire robot, and have it programmed for competition.

This is the finished structure of our arm.

This is the arm being attached to the base of the arm structure.

BEGINNING OF WEEK 3

Week 3:

We are beginning the week with the construction of our robot's arm, we have finished the chassis and the drive train, now it is time to build the arm of the robot.
Goals for this week are to finish the arm of the robot.

This is the main column for the base of our robot's arm.

 This is the gear box that we will use to function the movement of the arm.

END OF WEEK 2

Week 2:

We finished off the week by finishing the chassis and drive train of our robot.
Now next week we can begin the building of our arm mechanism that we will use to pick up the racket balls and score on our opponent.

The finished Chassis and drive train.

The robot at the end of this week.

Chassis/Drive Train

Week 2:

We began the week by distributing the parts the we organized equally to all the groups.

This is what each team was distributed:
2 small motors
2 big motors
14 collars
4 small gears
2 big gears
multiple miscellaneous metals
1 brain and 1 crystal
1 controller
2 motor controllers

Our goals for the week were to build a chassis and a drive train, so that next week we can begin the construction of our arm.




                                                                                       

                     


  

 Our group after we received all of our parts.









We began to build the base of our robot, the chassis.

Disassembling and Organizing

Week 1

Friday 10/3/14:

After making our teams and setting up our games, it is now time to get started!

We begin on our new challenge by dissembling our old robots and organizing the parts so that on Monday we can distribute the parts to the group evenly. 

 The groups join together and work together to get all the VEX parts disassembled and organized.

Now that is all organized and put away, on Monday we can begin the distribution process.