Movement

Unbelievable to watch this arm in action!! When fully extended, it has no problem reaching the highest peg. Tonight we'll continue adding devices to the arm for better control and hopefully have the opportunity to test out the program. Make sure to revisit our site. Videos and/or pictures of the arm will be posted soon.

We are continuing to make slow and steady progress. This week's agenda: Finish installing and wiring the motors that drive the arm and claw. We have one installed and checked, and two others will be on real soon (operational by Tuesday or Wednesday we hope). We're finding we need to adjust or add to the brackets that connect the motors to the frame, to add to the stability of the motors while operating the arm and claw.

The mini-bot works awesome and we have a deployment design ready to go when the arm motors are fully installed.

We have the mini-bot pretty much done. We're working on the switching method, but it climbs the pole great. We need to finish up the mini-bot deployment method which will happen when the arm is up and running. The drive system is all mounted and wired in it's final configuration. Programming updates are being done. The grabbing arm and claw is installed and the motors are being mounted this morning. We still have allot of little things to finish up to make the arm and claw work, but expect that to be done today.