Next week is finals week for many, many people. The lab will be open Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for sure. If you are free to come in Monday or Tuesday, you must reply to this e-mail. If there is not enough interest, I will contact those people who said that they can come, and let them know the lab is closed.
If you are interested in animation, you must e-mail me. Keep in mind, you have about a month to learn and animate. If your primary goal for this year is to get robot-building experience, this probably isn't something you want to pursue. However, if the interest holds after long grueling months of building robots, we'll find a mentor and start playing with animation then.
Davis Regional: Diane recently sent out an e-mail earlier today, but to recap, do we want to go? We are going to Silicon Valley Regional (3/13-15) and the Championships (4/17-19). The Davis Regional would be the weekend right after SVR (3/20-22). Please check your calendars and respond with whether or not you can / want to go. Keep in mind, you could just choose to go to one or two of the events even if the team decides to go to three.
What was done today
1) We had a team meeting ...
2) We decided we're going to build an elevator lift robot.
(Is that really two different items? Well ... no.)
What will be done next
Mechanical (tomorrow): Begin prototyping grabber designs
Mechanical (tomorrow): Begin fleshing out elevator
lift
Mechanical (tomorrow): Begin cutting metal for the chassis
Programming / Electronics (tomorrow): Dissect the steering wheel and put it back together again (lots of soldering practice.)
Mechanical (by end of 1/13):
Have a CAD drawing (at least preliminary)
Mechanical / Electrical / You (by end of 1/13): Build
a "prototype" robot out of the Kop that we can program and drive. (This
seems less and less likely, but it's getting replaced by a real chassis, so I'm quite happy.)
Please respond to this e-mail
with what days you can make it to the lab next week (especially Monday
or Tuesday), if you're interested in animation, and whether or not you
would like to go to the Davis regional.
-- Katherine
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