The End Draws Near!

3/30/10. Monday and Tuesday back from spring break! Now our robot's taking shape. We did something... odd with the grabber. We attached a sort of bridge to it, making it tilt down instead of being flat to the ground. Ingeniously enough, it lengthens our grabber's height enough for it to be able to score in the bucket!!! Now we just need to modify our bridge, now the actual grabbing surface, to be able to grab balls.

Oh joy of joys! I would like to be frank though, I'm not terribly upset by this. In the, oh say, 20 seconds it took for me to go in back and grab the game bucket, Norm somehow managed to destroy one of our motors and tear one of the wires off the other. I'm still confused as to how that happened.

Lastly, nervousness is setting in. In two critical days before competition, Thursday and Friday, Norm will be gone!!! Ahhh!!! This means that I will have the singular task of connecting all our servos, the speed controls, and the battery to the robot and make sure that they are all working properly, on top of securing our gearbox to the wheels. All I can say, is that Norm has a certain confidence in my skills, which is reassuring. I shall prevail!!!!!!