Build Week 2 Recap

  In the past week, we have yet again accomplished more of our goals. On Wednesday, we discussed about business strategies and brainstormed ways to get sponsorship. Our business mentor walked us through the process of receiving a letter of support, and coming up with unique characteristics and statistics about our team to attract companies. A couple of students learned how to use GIMP and began designing the team's logo.

  On Saturday, we continued working on our robot. The programming team created a class to easily interface with Xbox360 controllers. They also created a subsystem to control the flywheel shooter and implement a driving system using piece wise functions. 

  The electrical team focused on creating a strip of leds to put on the side of the shooter. They learned how to use ICs to control multiple leds with one input. They soldered leds and ICs onto circuit boards and worked on making animations with the leds.

  The mechanical team worked on multiple tasks. One half of the team worked with CAD and continued to design components while the other half assembled the flywheel shooter prototype and more of the barriers. At the end of the day, we were able to test out the flywheel shooter and the results were amazing. 

  While we are certainly taking giant steps in the building process, there is still so much left to do and only four weeks left to do so! Continue following our journey as we post updates and pictures of our progress here at our blog and in the gallery.