Push to the Finish!

Its been a busy week full of machining, assembling, workings, and fixing problems for Team RamRod. Car RamRod was completely assembled on Monday. Some testing was done, and we are trying to fix it all before we have to turn the machine in on Wednesday. After redesigning the gear box a week or two ago, we had to re-make some parts and several new parts were added to make our machine more robust.

Below are some pictures of the assembly of the machine:

 We are using our acrylic roof to hold our motor for the roller.





Here is of Car RamRod, before complete assemble was complete:

You can see the new gear box on the right. We had to move the gear acrylic holder to the outside of the tracks so we will be able to drive around on the top.









Here are some images of our assembled machine:

Here you can see the completed machine. The threads are on and the roller is attachted. It runs, which is always a good thing.


Here is a front view of our robot. Our machine will drive up to the ping pong and squash balls. The roller will such the balls into the storage area and keep them in there. Upon testing, no more than 4 squash balls can be in there at one time.

We look forward to the competition!