The Home Stretch

T-minus 8 days! All of the manufacturing is due next Tuesday, which means that we have 6 days of manufacturing time left! We will have to be efficient with the time that we do have, but we should be able to finish with a comfortable window of time left. We need to focus on milling a few parts for the top bot, and need to mill all of the parts for the wedge launcher, and then the final assembly begins.

Currently, we need to fasten all of the fixtures to the top bot body: the casters, the pillow blocks and the motors all need to bolt to the bottom. We also will need to fix the inner walls to collect the balls, and the arm which sweeps them into the body.

In addition to this, we were unfortunately the victims of a late-shipped order of screws from McMaster-Carr, which means we have to devote about an hour of this week to assembling our slot module, which should have been done last week. However, this does not require shop time and can likely be done in lab section.

Construction of the wedge launcher will begin this week, and requires us to mill four parts and lathe two axles. Luckily, if things run smoothly, this should not take up more than four hours of our shop time.

Lastly, the electrical wiring and tether for the top bot will need to be constructed. This is a unique design, something that we will have to think twice about before implicating, but will not take place until the end of the week.

We begin our busy week with 8 days left!

-Team MA