Last week we completed our car on top of the table as well as finishing the rest of our machine in the slot. We spent approximately 6 hours in one of the two shops all 5 days during the week and then would meet at night to discuss our plans for the next day. This way we did not waste valuable time when we were signed up in the machine shop. Then on Friday night we tested our machine and only through testing each individual part were we able to find out what needed to be fixed by using a calculators batteries as a power source. Saturday and Sunday were spent in the Wilson Center making small adjustments to shafts and the way every shaft was connected or even possibly bent.
On Monday we were able to test our machine on the actual arena and learned that the slot was slightly smaller than 2.5 inches wide due to tolerances so we had to make one of our aluminum plates thinner and change some of our shaft lengths in order for our machine to fit into the slot. Finally, we had to redo our acrylic frame that holds our extending arm because the top was beginning to break so we wanted to eliminate that possibility. This time we will screw each piece of acrylic together since we decided that the glue we were using was not the best option. Our final challenges are to make sure that the linkage will continue to work flawlessly in this new more tightly confined space in the slot and make sure that our car will be able to go over the plastic strip in the center of the arena when it is carrying a lot of balls.
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