It is February and we have some big news for you. We have made big improvements on our robot. We have finished the launching mechanism but we are still working on figuring out how to mount the air compressor and air valves. We have also got the ball to get some good height with our test. We think it’s a good height so we will find out soon. We have some videos of our tests with the launcher that we will show you down below.
Launcher test
Throughout our fun month of february we did some events with our other robot, The T-Shirt Cannon. We first had a swim meet we went to. We had fun at the meet and even let one other person shoot it. We had trouble with the cannon because we shot pool noodles and they were not heavy enough to sore the air, so we just taped a bunch of towels and shot them. We also were at a basketball game and it was great. We got a small amount of people to shoot for but we had lots of towels to shoot. We hit the same people a few times . But otherwise it was fun.
Last Tuesday and Friday we had the hoedown throwdown and we shot the T-shirt cannon and it was a blast. Tuesday we shot it at the crowd and the crowd loved it. They thought it was really cool and took pictures with us. On Friday there was a small volleyball game and after that we shot it again and the crowd wanted to be shot at. We only had seven shots and it wasn’t enough.
Last Saturday part of our team went to the practice course and learned a few things. They also saw a few techniques other teams did that we didn’t do. Most of the teams used flywheels. Also when people went to climb the monkey bars, the hand that holds the pole broke. They also saw teams make their intake out of wheels and belts. They even saw one team use lots of rubber bands. They saw that some teams focused on shooting the balls and some climbing the monkey bars. We are mainly focused on shooting the ball and if we can we want to try and climb the monkey bars.
Here are some pictures of us working on the robot.
