Thursday, October 29, 2009

Team Schedule

We have exactly 6 weeks until our Design Expo, so here's our tentative schedule (subject to change of course).

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Our design concept

For this competition, we decided to look for a way to push balls over the center divider in the arena and to block access to the bin. Our concept for these strategies was to use a leadscrew with a telescoping arm attached. To cover the bin, we will have a circular sheet of metal which we will set up so it will drop once we have an offensive move.


Here's our initial SolidWorks model of the system.