There was a robotics meeting yesterday, but I was sick and could not attend. It seemed that all they did was finagle the plastic flaps on the intake belt, add a little more tape, and adjust the U-shaped piece of the ball conduit.
Today, I added toggle controls for a new servo that has been inset in the part of the U-shaped metal piece immediately behind the intake belt. It can be flapped open to allow balls to go out the back rather than getting captured into the ball hopper.
While test-driving it, the ball hopper started getting out of alignment and turning to the left. After a couple of runs of that happening, the entire lift assembly produced a distinct "crack" sound and went down. Apparently, some of the fasteners broke. When the engineer attempted to service it, the lift fully detached from the robot.
After that was repaired, we are out of the large screws necessary to hold this lift together. Hopefully it won't break again.
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