Day 39

The rest of the sheet metal from our local sponsor showed up today, and the rest our other sponsor will be in tomorrow at 5! We still plan on getting the robot powder coated, so tomorrow night I will be bringing all of the parts over to the powder coater to final let him do his thing. Today as soon as school ended I drove over to the GUS shop to help Mr.Morrison turn out some more parts, and as soon as Mr.Dutra showed up with the sheet metal we jumped right into building the gear boxes and assembling the drive train! Mechanically it's finished excluding chains on one side. Here are all of the pictures I have from today!

Gear boxes in and wheels being put on!

Close up on the shifting gearbox!

4/6 wheels on!

"Crap Art, you forgot to check to see if the wheels would hit the ground!"

One side complete!

Done for the night! Not bad for a couple hours of work!

From the rear!

Father and son working together!

Gearbox assembly gif! (CLICK ON IT!)

Tomorrow will be building the upper half and mating them! The team is super motivated right now and we need to stay that way if we want to compete at Suffield this weekend! We plan to keep The Awesome Bar a secret until WPI, no need to let the cat out of the bad so early, especially if it is going to work as well as we predict it will! I'll have more tomorrow.

-D