Day 40-Week 20

The final day has arrived of blogging. We have passed our racquetball challenge with a 100 percent and placed first in our class. It has been a pleasure working with Opi's Comet thus far and we look forward to our next challenge. This is Suraj signing off.

Day 39-Week 20

Our Monday began just like any other this week. Slumped and exhausted from the weekend we re tightened screws and began to practice our racquetball challenge. We found a few faults in our arm and are initiating construction of arm 2.0 on Tuesday.

Day 19-Week 38

As of this week we finished the arm and began coding. The ports seem to be a little clustered and thus is making it difficult to code. Our team continues to work hard and strive to be the best. We should finish the challenge by next week hopefully.

Week 19-Day 37

We have successfully completed the arm while for our ball challenge today. We still need to test it though, due to AP testing we will be missing some class periods however. LETS KEEP ON GOING OPI'S COMET!

Week 18-Day 36

 Ever since the evil testing has began our group has had little time to work on our robot. We continue to plan and design new techniques for our challenge. Despite these obstacles we are determined to complete the ball challenge.

Week 18-Day 35

Another boring week of testing has taken away our precious time. Between ELA and Ap testing we manged to reconstruct our arm in the given period of one day. Our robot has been lately inconsistent in its movements and we plan to investigate.

Week 17-Day 34

Due to some technical difficulties our robot was unable to move on Friday. We had to take apart the motor and clean it out. Once done, our motor was functioning again and the robot was back to normal.

Week 17-Day 33

Due to the infamous ap tests our week has been destroyed. WE accomplished very little because our team was only here during the week for one week. We received some advice from Nick however, and got some ideas for our next challenge.

Week 16- Day 32

Opi's Comet wrapped up the week with a brand new constructed arm and a half-coded robot. Boggled with multiple problems, our robot continues to test our patience. You can consider this challenge as a work-in-progress.

Week 16-Day 31

Once finished with our last daunting task Mr. Martin assigned us the same one again, but this time we must do it autonomously. The infamous autonomous challenge stumped our team last time, but the tides will turn. We initiated our week with reconstructing the arm.

Day 30-Week 15

We have successfully completed our robot today. With smooth and concise precision our robot will be sure to dominate our challenge on Monday. Although Suraj is the superior driver Alec will be the D.D. (designated driver).

Day 29-Week 15

Opi's Comet is well on their way to creating the perfect robot. Needing to put a couple final touches on the robot, we began practicing the challenge course. It seems though our arm may need a little bit of readjusting,

Day 28-Week 14

This week our team has covered a lot of ground. From building an arm to establishing a new canopy, we are way ahead of schedule. Our team has initiated the coding process of the arm and our future seems to be as bright as a light bulb here at Opi's Comet.

Day 27- Week 14

We have finished our search for parts today and plan on assembling everything throughout the week. Opi's Comet is well on their way to finish first among the the other groups for building a successful arm.

Day 26- Week 13

Opi's Comet finished the week with agreeing upon our final building plan. We managed to start the construction of the arm. We are still in the process of contemplating of using a big motor or small motor.

Day 25-Week 13

We began our research today on the tetrahedral challenge. Googling various arm techniques our group has managed to select our design. Consisting of an arm-like structure to lift the tetrahedrons and a simple wheel, our design is ensured for success. My name is Suraj and I approve this message.

Day 22-Week 11

Today was the big day of autonomous testing. After working countless hours on our robot we were able to score 90/100 on our autonomous test. For each straight line or turn we received a certain amount of points. Opi's Comet is very proud of their autonomous robot.

Day 21-Week 11

Being the last week to work on autonomous we scrambled to ensure our Robot worked correctly. While not having a cortex key we were forced to use an orange wire, which connected to the robot and controller. This forced us to walk our robot like a dog. Although inconvenient it got the job done.

Day 20-Week 10

After a strenuous week of attempting to correct our coding. We received a marvelous tip from Mr. Martin about battery power, which heavily influences the robot's course. We are now currently using all factors associated with the robot in order for it to work autonomously.

Day 19-Week 10

We began Monday morning with a great start. Completing two laps, the autonomous robot seemed almost complete, until we attempted to code the third lap. Our journey was about to take a turn for the worst.

Day 18-Week 9

After fixing up our robot problems we began to begin the actual coding process. We learned on how time speed, and voltage power affects the robot's performance and are currently on the first lap of the robot.

Day 17- Week 9

We kicked off the week with beginning to learn on how to code the robot in a way we haven't done before. We were supposed code the robot to go around two chairs automatically. However, our group wasn't unable to begin the actual process because of some maintenance problems with the actual robot.

Day 16- Week 8

During our coding experience we have stumbled upon multiple problems. We have attempted to trouble-shoot them but have remained unsuccessful, until we teamed up with 21 armored division to figure out how to code successfully. The outcome of the week was finishing the robot and beginning our coding adventure.

Day 15- Week 8

We finally finished our robot this week. We checked over it by tightening all the screws and looking to find any misplaced parts. Once done we had our robot checked by Mr. Martin, who finalized it and gave us permission to begin coding.

Day 14-Week 7

We continued to build our robot throughout the week. While doing so we learned the names of many pieces of equipment. Through trial and error we discovered many different techniques to building the robot. Overall, our week was productive, we managed to lock the engine in place with the chassis.

Day 13-Week 7

This week we initiated the process of building our robot. We used the Vex binder as well as Mr. Martin's guidelines to build the robot. Various tools such as Allen Wrenches were used to enhance our building speed.

Day 12-Week 6

Today Mr. Martin was absent so we decided to work on our blog. Once finished we looked over the boxes and checked for any obvious misplaced items. Our outcome was organizing and learning about tools this week.

Day 11- Week 6

We began to disassemble the robots as well as learn where everything is located. We used tools such as Allen Wrenches to take apart the robot. Mr. Martin gave us certain benefits for being the first group done.

Day 10-Week 5

We continued to help our colleagues and go over our robot for errors. With our are spare time we managed to accomplish some final touches to the blog as well as edit the template and colors to our likings

Day 9- Week 5

Being one of the first groups finished, we decided to aid others in the need of assistance with their square bots. We helped convert a step file that was malfunctioning. We helped Sozin's Comet as well as 21st armored division.

Day 8-Week 4

We wrapped up the week with finishing up out entire robot! After finally making the canopy and attaching it with the main robot we ended it all by adding the nuts and bolts. Overall it was a productive week.

Day 7-Week 4

We changed our Blog name to Opi's Comet (named after our roller coaster last year). Continuing our robot project we managed to finish the chassis and began the construction of the canopy.

Day 6-Week 3

Today we figured out how to properly download all the parts successfully. We began assembling them in order. Mr. Martin refreshed our minds on how to use SolidWorks too. While doing all of this we simultaneously  updated our blogs. Our outcome of this week was assembling the right side panel with steps 1-3 completed.

Day 5-Week 3

Today we went over Vex Parts and learned how to download them. While some were trying to figure out how to download them our group began to start assembling it. It took us approximately twenty minutes of class to get the the parts downloaded and the rest of class to try to figure out assembling parts.

Day 4-Week 2

Mr. Martin went over new devices and gave us tips on robots. The types of items he went over were  the brain,crystal frequencies, and sensors. In addition, he showed us an example of a Lego using sensors through a video. The outcome of this week gave us better background knowledge of the robots

Day 3-Week 2

We are continuing to review and learn about the blogging and robotics program. We have caught up to date with blogging and took our group pictures. We are currently working on the aesthetics of our blog.

Day 2-Week 1

We started the process of learning the basics of robotics. Mr. Martin started telling us some of the pros and cons to some of the tools and parts of different designs of robots. The outcome of this week was a basic introduction to robotics.

Day 1- Week 1

Today was day one working on our blog. We were introduced to blogger and exposed to new goals that we will try to accomplish in the future.