9/27/2010 meeting

As promised here are Attendance/Jobs to start off with:

J.P. Connors: Solidworks

Drew B: Pulley Finishing; filing,reaming pressing

Constantine: Pulley Finishing; filing, reaming, pressing

Rick: Son of a Brick Mods

Izzy: Son of a Brick Mods

Eric: Make Standoffs

Tom: Make Stand offs

Kieth: Part Organization/ Desoldering/ Electrical taping

Sajeev Daniel: Delegating assignments/ helping everyone do said assignments/ Evil Slave Driver from hell/ your bestest friend in the whole world(atleast the bestest brown one)

Status Update

So its been a really long time since we've updated BUT.
LOLCANO and SOB were completed and competed at rumble at the rock.
The 120 bar spinner has commenced its construction and has completed the bottom fram.
Anonomous has been redesigned re shelled and is under construction and nearly complete.
LOLCANO has been deemed working concept with FAIL parts, so the parts are being re done on the nice bridgeport mill.

Update 10/22

So things have sorta have been slowed down by the fact that we are waiting on many parts to come in.
We have 2 new designs in the work, a 15lb flipper/chucker by owen and nick, and a 120 bar spinner by me, more details to come.

Progress as of 10/01

LOLCANO: FRICTION PULLEY DONE, Beater Repaired, spin test achieved.

Anonymous: Prototyping commenced

SOB: CHARGING, spacers started

THe brick: Pieces being found

NEW MEETING TIMES

Due to scheduling conflicts between Mr. Prince and Owen, We have changed our meeting times.

We now meet:
-Every ACA

-Every Monday till 7:00 or 8:00 (you dont have to stay the entire time)

-Every Thursday till 5:30

-Every one of my few free blocks!

To be an active member of the team, please try to attend atleast one after school meeting a week
if you have any questions, see Mr. Prince, Owen McGarry, or Myself

RESOURCES

I thought it was time to share some stuff with the team.

The greatest book resource made by experts in the field of battlebots:
http://www.riobotz.com.br/riobotz_combot_tutorial.pdf
THIS IS A LARGE FILE too many pages to print I will ask mr. prince to buy a copy for the school 10 bucks on amazon

THE FORUMhttp://www.battlebots.forummotion.com
Great place to discuss ideas with people at all sorts of level and from all over the place

What actually got done on 9/15

Measurements were started and wiring commenced on anonymous

Lolcano 3's Hubs came out ugly but perfect

old lolcano was put together and taken apart so check and uncheck will be redone during ACA

WOOD PROTOTYPE DID NOT HAPPEN BECAUSE WE HAD NO MILLS