Last night, we realized that we had a two-wheel drive chassis instead of a four-wheel drive! So we had to add two motors to our drive train, which was sort of difficult since the scissor lift was in the way. We ended up raising the scissor lift, which created another problem: a crate on top of the scissor lift would be too high for us to deliver racquetballs to it via the conveyor belt. We are still working on this!
While all this was going on, we also mounted the front arm so we'd be able to pick up crates. This was one of the tasks we'd been trying to do for a few meetings, so at least we made some progress.
We also had to write a teleop program so we'd be able to drive the robot on Saturday. This was done, but we can't test the program until the robot is actually wired. As you can see, there are quite a few things we need to finish or fix before we have a working robot- even one that can just drive! Hopefully, we can make a lot of progress on Thursday.
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