Off-season 2010

[Jason]

This thread is for discussing the off-season projects for 2010

So far I have come up with the following ideas for off-season projects, feel free to submit your own.

*Get PV=nRT up and running as a t-shirt cannon. This seems like a good design and a more detailed look at the design can be found here.
*Build a battery charging cart. I had something like this in mind that has wheels and is handled like a hand truck.
*Create scale models of previous robots, both in CAD and real life.
*Design a small and simple gearbox for the Fisher-Price motor--the one with the huge black gearbox.
*Design/prototype mecanum wheels.
*Give E^πi + 1 (Zero) four wheel drive.
*Train someone in programming. More than one person would be even better.
*Build a robot cart. It must be able to hold all the robots and fit through a doorway no matter which robot it is carrying. The ability to hold parts and tools as well as handle rough terrain is a must.
*Finish Lexan holder

[Maggie]

I have already started working with programming, and it is going well. I was wondering if I might be able to borrow the little laptop from last year to take a look at the code, so I know better what it looks like when applied to robots. That and/or a copy of previous years' programs would be greatly appreciated.

[Jason]

sure, come to the next meeting and you can get it. We also need to fix the current robot code. it's still doing the non-stop kicking that it started doing at the end of salt lake, and re-downloading the code didn't help.

[Brenden]

we also need to finish the Lexan holder. And I wouldn't mind working on the CAD models of the robots sounds like a fun learning experience and i have the perfect computer for it.

[Jason]

we now have a working t-shirt cannon, those who helped out at the cub scouts presentation have already seen it, and it's pretty awesome. It could use a paint job to make it look more awesome and we still need to get it mounted to PV=nRT.