Hello dear avid readers:
Keerthana and I decided that we would do something "out of the norm" today :)Today was a very coincidential day: we did some researching and snooping to find out what people really say when Build and pressure gets to them.
We must say: we got some satisfying results.
Quote 1:
Devaki: Do you wanna help her while she's screwing the screws on?
Madhav: No... course not. We're cool.
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This is going on while Madhav is standing there and Jene is killing her hands while trying to hold the conveyor in place and screwing on at the same time.
Quote 2:
This is from Mike, so of course we all know that something is definetely involved.
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Mike: I like getting on top of elephants. Elephants are soft.
Quote 3:
This is a quote usually used by Mike, though unfortunately, it's been spreading:
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Mike and others: "That's what she said."
Kinda got annoying after the 20th time.
Quote 3:
This quote is happening while Jene is working on the conveyor belt design. She's trying to screw the gusset down into the bosh, but its proving to be quite difficult. So of course, she's going, "No, no no!" And our dear Mike, sensing the perfect opportunity, says, "Are you sane?" While she's screaming "no!" at the conveyor belt. Aahh. Gotta love Mike. Actually, not really =). Watch him hunt us down tomorrow :)
Quote 4:
Mr. Shinta, Rohan, and Mr. Latnen are talking about the Austrailian Outback, with all the kangaroos and Finding Nemo came up in that conversation as well :)
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Mr. Shinta: Yeah, we were driving around there, and we found kangaroo roadkill like every 15 seconds. Others witnessing: "Eeewwww!!"
and the Finding Nemo one:
"Is there really a P. Sherman. 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney?"
This author actually bothered to research that: and yes there is a Wallaby Way, but not in Sydney. Its in some other random smaller cities.
Quote 5:
We don't remember where exactly this happened but its very true
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"You fail"
Quote 6:
Nupur's :
"Jeet looks like he's a fencing captain with that long rod. He's carrying it like one too."
Quote 7:
We don't remember who said this:
"Lets go whack someone on the head with the pub mix box!!"
Quote 8:
Mike is famous again:
"WE FINISHED THE JELLY BEANS THAT WAS 2/3 WAY FULL AND THE PUB MIX BOX IN ONE DAY?!!!"
And looking back on that, that is pretty amazing.
Quote 9:\
The electrical gyro/autonomous team is looking at the code; and they need help. So, they ask Chris.
"Hey Chris! You wanna help us out?"
Chris: "uuuhhh. That seems like a good idea, actually."
Quote 10:
Devaki is updating Labview to a more recent version. She uses Mike's thumb drive and opens Windows Explorer to copy the updates onto the individual laptops. And she finds out the name of the thumb drive is Mike's USB. And she asks Mike why out loud.
Mike's reply: "Mike's USB. You know why its called that ? because if you kill it, mike will get to you and you will not be happy after that meeting."
Quote 11:
Its from Jeet. Its the last one, because these authors think that he's annoying :) AND HE WENT TO A LINKIN PARK CONCERT WITH JAY-Z featured on it too!!!But it closes off our spiel nicely.
Jeet: "Alright everyone! LET'S GET THIS ROBOT DONE!!"
Well, we've done a bit of snooping, and digging. We might even do one next week, as build comes to a close in two weeks.
Thankyou!
Over and out,
Keerthana and Devaki.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tuesday, January 27th 2009
Today was a pretty uneventful day, the same as normal pretty much.
Mechanical glued conveyor belts and made a few angle curves for the "wall", so to speak. Electrical was astonished by Chris's many awesome drive code versions; the first one was apparently no good for him :). The gyro group had a few conflicts with the code and what exactly is going in the Sub VIs. Another avid member was working on more autonomous code.
It turns out that these authors were misinformed about the Electrical's progress; they aren't close to done. But they will be!
The chassis and the robot should theoretically be done by saturday, so electrical can code. The authors will carefully observe the progress of the team and report faithfully back.
And a word to the wise: Mike is very violent with lack of sleep. Please don't annoy him then :) This author did, and she was painfully hit with an empty pizza box. So we warn you
Other than that, GO BUILDERS!!
oh, Check out our GATE video on water rockets on www.mvrt.com!
Mechanical glued conveyor belts and made a few angle curves for the "wall", so to speak. Electrical was astonished by Chris's many awesome drive code versions; the first one was apparently no good for him :). The gyro group had a few conflicts with the code and what exactly is going in the Sub VIs. Another avid member was working on more autonomous code.
It turns out that these authors were misinformed about the Electrical's progress; they aren't close to done. But they will be!
The chassis and the robot should theoretically be done by saturday, so electrical can code. The authors will carefully observe the progress of the team and report faithfully back.
And a word to the wise: Mike is very violent with lack of sleep. Please don't annoy him then :) This author did, and she was painfully hit with an empty pizza box. So we warn you
Other than that, GO BUILDERS!!
oh, Check out our GATE video on water rockets on www.mvrt.com!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Saturday January 24, 2009
Today we worked on yet more inventor drawings and tested out the shooter and if the robot would tip. The shooter still needs adjusting because it doesn't shoot far enough. We crashed 2 robots against each other and found that it does tip, but it only fell over once. However, the trailer might be able to fix that problem.
Electrical programmed some more.
Electrical programmed some more.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Friday, January 23rd 2009
We are now officially half way through the build season!
The conveyor belt was attached to the chassis, and Jean, Karthik, Ashwin, and the team tried to test collide the robot to an older MVRT robot. Of course, the issue of the weight as a factor of the robot tipping forward and backward came up. The solution: Duct tape the Electronic textbooks that Mr. Shinta has to the chassis of the older robot!! It took about 20 of those books to make up the required 60 or so pounds. Lets do some math. 20 books to 60 pounds means each book is three pounds! And us Monta Vistans carry one or two of those in our backpacks ( weight is varied ) and then a few binders or more which would weigh 5 more pounds, and possibly 1 or 2 textbooks in our hands. Now, don't you think our backs are going to die because of all the insane amount of textbooks we have to carry?
Alright, back on task. So, the robot apparently survived the crash test. While all of this was going on, Cristian was "inventoring". Guess what?! He was creating the designs for a stool! Yes ladies and gentlemen, a stool. It was quite funny. And onlookers were admiring...
In the next room, laptops were set out around one of the tables, and everyone was "labviewing" as usual. We had interesting discussions about autism, crimping and accidentally poking eyes out, and unsteady hands. Yes, it was an interesting day.
Not to mention Mike's "interaction" with hot sauce. That was mildly gross and funny.
The conveyor belt was attached to the chassis, and Jean, Karthik, Ashwin, and the team tried to test collide the robot to an older MVRT robot. Of course, the issue of the weight as a factor of the robot tipping forward and backward came up. The solution: Duct tape the Electronic textbooks that Mr. Shinta has to the chassis of the older robot!! It took about 20 of those books to make up the required 60 or so pounds. Lets do some math. 20 books to 60 pounds means each book is three pounds! And us Monta Vistans carry one or two of those in our backpacks ( weight is varied ) and then a few binders or more which would weigh 5 more pounds, and possibly 1 or 2 textbooks in our hands. Now, don't you think our backs are going to die because of all the insane amount of textbooks we have to carry?
Alright, back on task. So, the robot apparently survived the crash test. While all of this was going on, Cristian was "inventoring". Guess what?! He was creating the designs for a stool! Yes ladies and gentlemen, a stool. It was quite funny. And onlookers were admiring...
In the next room, laptops were set out around one of the tables, and everyone was "labviewing" as usual. We had interesting discussions about autism, crimping and accidentally poking eyes out, and unsteady hands. Yes, it was an interesting day.
Not to mention Mike's "interaction" with hot sauce. That was mildly gross and funny.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Today was design review!
We don't know the outcome of the design review, we will post that up tomorrow.
Today: All the prototypes were basically wrapped up; and there were a few last minute additions, fixing problems, and so on. We will post the results of the design review and an "in-depth" idea of what our final robot is going to look like.
Electrical was as usual, working on labview :) The autonomous code is pretty much done. If we want we can do a little more tweaking here and there, and create new strategies on what the robot should do during autonomous. Other coding such as drive code, gyro, accelerator, I think they are done!
So, I think its safe to say that electrical is almost done!
Way to go everybody!
We don't know the outcome of the design review, we will post that up tomorrow.
Today: All the prototypes were basically wrapped up; and there were a few last minute additions, fixing problems, and so on. We will post the results of the design review and an "in-depth" idea of what our final robot is going to look like.
Electrical was as usual, working on labview :) The autonomous code is pretty much done. If we want we can do a little more tweaking here and there, and create new strategies on what the robot should do during autonomous. Other coding such as drive code, gyro, accelerator, I think they are done!
So, I think its safe to say that electrical is almost done!
Way to go everybody!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Everyone today was running helter-skelter to finish their designs :)
With the design review just around the corner, last minute designs were put together.
We woked on the prototype version 2 of the conveyor belt and attached shooter prototype. We even worked on gear ratios for the shooter and conveyor, not to mention working on machining the wheel blocks.
Electrical tested out their code and worked on more labview tutorials. Can't get enough of learning labview! With the autonomous code that FIRST gave us being faulty, and people running around trying to help others, it was quite a busy day, for the folks in the electrical division.
Keep up the WONDERFUL work everybody; just a month until the robot is shipped and we head to SVR!
~ Devaki and Keerthana
With the design review just around the corner, last minute designs were put together.
We woked on the prototype version 2 of the conveyor belt and attached shooter prototype. We even worked on gear ratios for the shooter and conveyor, not to mention working on machining the wheel blocks.
Electrical tested out their code and worked on more labview tutorials. Can't get enough of learning labview! With the autonomous code that FIRST gave us being faulty, and people running around trying to help others, it was quite a busy day, for the folks in the electrical division.
Keep up the WONDERFUL work everybody; just a month until the robot is shipped and we head to SVR!
~ Devaki and Keerthana
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Today, we basically split up into groups again, and worked on our corresponding designs for the conveyor belt, as well as the chassis. Everyone's working much harder now because the design review on Thursday night is looming closeby :)
Electrical worked on programming the gyro and the accelerator, as well as experimenting with the autonomous code that FIRST gave us.
It was a fruitful day, in the end.
Keep up the great job everyone! Just 4 more weeks till build is over!
A reminder: Design review is on Thursday night. Please ask your parents to come!
Electrical worked on programming the gyro and the accelerator, as well as experimenting with the autonomous code that FIRST gave us.
It was a fruitful day, in the end.
Keep up the great job everyone! Just 4 more weeks till build is over!
A reminder: Design review is on Thursday night. Please ask your parents to come!
Friday-Monday, January 16-19
Well wow! That long weekend sure zoomed by...We worked in different groups to get different parts of the robot done. Mechanical rookies and veterans worked on Inventor and drew up some of the finer details of the robot and churned out some pretty amazing stuff! We got a video up about the last design review and the things we've done since then and gotta say, it was pretty darn awesome! Electrical rookies and veterans continued work with learning and mastering LabView and we tested out the drive code on the robot. We also had some people working on designing our T-shirts! We winded down the weekend by doing an early [and much needed] clean up on Monday evening.
Remember that there's a design review coming up, so keep working hard and going to build!
Keep up the great work everybody!
Remember that there's a design review coming up, so keep working hard and going to build!
Keep up the great work everybody!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Monday January 19, 2009
We didn't have as many members show up as we would have liked today but we still got some work done! The electrical division did a few labview tutorials and worked on programming both the gyro and the accelerometer. Meanwhile, mechanical started working on getting a full size (but still a prototype) conveyor belt together.
With a design review on Thursday, the team is working to get a running robot to show the mentors and parents to get some feedback on the design.
With a design review on Thursday, the team is working to get a running robot to show the mentors and parents to get some feedback on the design.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Friday, January 16th, 2009
Today, we split up into new groups. We went ahead with the conveyor belt idea. The design groups split up into smaller groups, and worked on inventor designs. Some people worked on the chasis, and tested the prototype conveyor belt to see how to lift the moon rocks from the ground. It worked! (but it needs some adjustments).
The electrical group worked on more labview tutorials to get familiarized with the interface. Some worked on modifying the drive code, others worked on the gyro and the accelerator. Some also fixed old batteries.
With the three-day weekend coming up, we're sure to get quite a bit of work done!
The electrical group worked on more labview tutorials to get familiarized with the interface. Some worked on modifying the drive code, others worked on the gyro and the accelerator. Some also fixed old batteries.
With the three-day weekend coming up, we're sure to get quite a bit of work done!
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