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| Class | Team Meeting | Items due | ||
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| 1 | ||||
| 29-Mar | Guidelines of communication | |||
| 30-Mar | Teamwork agreement, preliminary brainstorming, meetings | |||
| 31-Mar | Discussion of course, marble collection | Signed teamwork agreement | ||
| 1-Apr | Brainstorming: marble collection mechanism / chassis | |||
| 2-Apr | Sensors Lab | |||
| 2 | ||||
| 5-Apr | Brainstorming, sketches, and strategy | |||
| 6-Apr | ||||
| 7-Apr | Motors Lab | Sensors lab | ||
| 8-Apr | Mock up chassis built | |||
| 9-Apr | Faculty discussion, final chassis design | |||
| 3 | ||||
| 12-Apr | Buy parts required for chassis | Motors lab report | ||
| 13-Apr | Begin building actual working chassis: treads, framework | |||
| 14-Apr | Servos & IR Lab | |||
| 15-Apr | Finish chassis design with axles, framework, and motor config | |||
| 16-Apr | Chassis performance and design flaws | Chassis: built, sketches, and requirements | ||
| 4 | ||||
| 19-Apr | Team peer evaluation / prelim. Psudo-code | Progress report, Servo Lab Report | ||
| 20-Apr | Location of sensors, motors, and marble mechanism finalized | |||
| 21-Apr | ||||
| 22-Apr | Marble mechanism assembled and in place | |||
| 23-Apr | Faculty discussion, move w/ motor | Specs and sketches for power train | ||
| 5 | ||||
| 26-Apr | Outline of final report | |||
| 27-Apr | ||||
| 28-Apr | ||||
| 29-Apr | Detailed psudo-code complete | |||
| 30-Apr | Flow chart for psudo-code | |||
| 6 | ||||
| 3-May | ||||
| 4-May | Final code in parts | |||
| 5-May | ||||
| 6-May | Finalize building of robot | |||
| 7-May | Robot complete | Sketches of electrical system | ||
| 7 | ||||
| 10-May | ||||
| 11-May | Testing, motors | |||
| 12-May | ||||
| 13-May | Testing, complete course step-by-step | |||
| 14-May | Marble pickup mechanism | |||
| 8 | ||||
| 17-May | ||||
| 18-May | Hardware improvements | |||
| 19-May | INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION | |||
| 20-May | Debugging | |||
| 21-May | ||||
| 9 | ||||
| 24-May | Holiday | |||
| 25-May | ||||
| 26-May | HEAD TO HEAD COMPETITION | |||
| 27-May | ||||
| 28-May | Work on report | |||
| 10 | ||||
| 31-May | Finish report | |||
| 1-Jun | Practice oral presentation | |||
| 2-Jun | ORAL REPORTS | |||
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| 4-Jun | ||||