Our wheels have arrived! Some of the team members showed up early today to start putting the wheels together. But, as usual, with progress come problems. We discovered that the mecanum wheels will not fit within the AndyMark Wheel Bracket supplied to us in the Kit of Parts. We spent a good portion of the morning figuring out where we need to cut the brackets to accommodate the mecanums as well as the sprocket and chain to drive them. We got all of the wheels built as well as the two new gear boxes, and mounted one onto the bot.
The PR team is still working on t-shirt and button designs. Today we took our team photos for the year as well as the individual “mug shots” that will be on the website and used for the personal buttons.
The programming team has continued to pursue Java, and has gotten communication between the driver station and the bot, as well as getting the camera to work.
BREAKAWAY is a game where two alliances of three teams each compete on a 27'x 54' field with bumps
attempting to earn points by collecting soccer balls in their goals. Additional bonus points are earned for each robot
not touching the field at the end of the match.
