This was from the scrimmage on January 17-18.
Attendance:
*Jessica

Agenda:
*Work on robot

Member comments/input:
*Saturday:
I attached the arm to the robot. The screws were on wrong on the servo bracket. They were to short, so we needed to replace them with longer screws. They held the servo bracket to the arm.
From testing the robot out, we need to drive the robot up the ramp backwards so that the motors propel the robot forward. We were going to attach the gears and motor to the arm so it can move. We couldn't figure out how to attach the tube so we switched to an axle. Then we had some problems with the size of the gear. We used the larger ones. But even after we set it all up, it STILL wouldn't move.Sunday:
Once we had the arm working we had some problems with it. It would slam down. We experimented a couple times and it finally vanished. But we couldn't get up the ramp because there was too much weight. I put the battery in the front/back and it WORKED!!!

Attendance: 1-9-09
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Nolan Dedrickson
Chris Pixley
Ben Pixley
Travis Smith
Kyler
Kyla Overbay
Jessica
Keegan

Agenda:
*Find out what drive system we want.

Member comments/input:
*Christopher Pixley: I managed to go through with Jeff McBride an learn
basic programming for robot c and will be able to get the motors and sensors
wired up next meeting
A new design for the manipulator. Drawn by Ben Pixley.


















A design drawn by Ben Pixley for the bot.

Attendance: 1-16-09
*Chris Pixley
Travis Smith
Kyla Overbay
Keegan
Jessica

Agenda:
*Get the robot to move
find out what way is forward

Member comments/input:
* Christopher pixley: I am glad to see that the robot is finally moving.
The program works and we could get the bluetooth working to get it
downloaded.