Tavares Labs

Laser Cut Plates

I havn’t made much progress in the past couple of days because of the FIRST robotics competition. We got the plates back from being laser cut on Wednesday (see picture) last week and they will be ready after I go through and countersink all the holes today. Max Morales over at Richardson High School is being amazing yet again and machining my center shaft for us today while I am stuck at work. I owe a lot to Max and I don’t know what I would do without his help and support. The crate team got a lot of the crate cut and ready to be put together the other day. The team also got some T-Shirt designs brainstormed the other day. Other than that, I dont have much to report.

The kids over at richardson High School have been busy with FIRST.I got to see there robot in action before they shipped it and I was extremley impressed. I think the driving system this year is going to be among the best at the competition but I will let you decide for yourself. Team 437 Driving

So I am going to just dive right into what I have accomplished in the past few days. I am almost done making the new spinning shell and I got the spin motors mounted on their base last night (see picture). I’m hoping that the rest of our mcmaster carr order comes in today. I finally diagnosed and fixed the problems I was having with the diagnostics board. That does it for this update. Other than all this, I have just been doing school work, Working, and sleeping about once a week.

We are making a lot of progress but we are going to have to make a lot more before this thing is done. Me and the Richardson High School guys took a visit over to Hydro Fabrication (Dwaines Waterjet) on Thursday and got quite a few of the parts machined for us. Dwaine really is a great guy. Me and the rest of the team went over to home depot on Friday and got all the materials needed to build the shipping crate.I worked on assembling one of Blender Mini’s dignostics circuit boards on saturday and ran into an issue with one of the chips.

Blender Mini 2 Shell

I just looked at it with a fresh mind and I think I solved the problem but I’ll have to wait until I actually have the board in my hands to know for sure. On Sunday I wired up all the battery chargers and then I spent several hours cleaning up the robotics lab because it was getting pretty bad. After class this morning I went over to BB Hazel Welding and picked up our titanium shell. It is so pretty.  I will probably try and go get the pillow blocks machined tonight now that I have the material and endmill I needed.