• Made new wooden side plates for the hatch mechanism.
• Drilled holes in and mounted the new slides to the robot superstructure.
• Mounted the hatch mechanism to the robot.
• Programming worked on the leg motion profiles and on the limelight's correction for angular approach.

After taking a break on Wednesday,

Hey grab gang,

Suction Progress: Got suction cups! Got impeller out of vacuum Did some preliminary tests with suction cups on the big vacuums Only held so well with 2 suction cups Had issues with seals - to be expected of a preliminary test

Velcro Progress:...

On Tuesday, we continued to prototype, but ran into a very similar problem with stab hatch as we did with grab hatch: lack of materials. However, the project lead didn't give up, and instead pursued other designs, including what he decided to nickname "flower." The mechanism was designed to go into...

During our first official meeting of the building season... we didn't fully build anything.

For the majority of the meeting, we worked on designing and starting to machine various mechanisms. Our two hatch groups split off and created preliminary designs for their mechanisms.

Grab hatch began...