Since it's a lack of lifting mechanism that's holding up our progress in robotics, we decided to start working on one despite not having the materials we need. We were expecting to have the linear slides 3D printed by now, but the facilitator of that is sick. So, we pulled out the contraptions that we started making at the last meet and tried to replicate them. We applied ThreadLock to the screws because there isn't a place to put nuts. These small assemblies were applied to the channels we have, and they seem to be doing a decent job of holding it together. We have yet to see whether it can be telescoped out by a motor.
Last week, we discovered that our field was set up backwards. Today, we discovered that the ramp's walls were reversed as well (to accommodate our misconception of the field layout). Not only that, we put the ramp plastic pieces together upside-down, so the arrangement of rivet holes was totally wrong. We got a drill and took the entire ramp apart - it was all wrong. We started putting it together the right way, but we need to find longer rivets.
Finally, I and one other member with little to do once the ramp was disassembled found the large bags of LEDs (that we ordered last year to use all our budget) and started soldering them to wires as practice and for fun. We didn't know that the length of the wires coming out of the LED mattered, so it was trial and error figuring out which way the circuit needed to go. We hooked it up to a triple-A battery from my calculator to see a slight red glow.
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