The High Rollers have officially finished our machine. We were able to test our machine in lab today and we made some modifications to it. We also applied the velcro to our machine for the battery pack. First of all we changed our strategy to knock off the black balls instead of knocking off the red balls. We changed up the strategy because our machine isn't able to turn on the ledge and drive straight along the ledge. Our machine is able to drive along the base and knock off the black balls though so fortunately we had that as a backup strategy to make our main strategy. We had a number of modifications we made to our machine.
The first modification we made to our machine was while we were testing it. We took off the sand paper on the front wheels because our machine can't turn with the sand paper on them.
The second modification we made went along with the first. Our machine didn't have enough traction with just the sand paper so we decided to put the rubber bands on to help our machine from slipping on the arena. I don't think it had enough traction in the first place because it wasn't heavy enough. But adding more weight would be bad for our strategy, so we had to improvise.
Another modification we made was putting rubber padding underneath the motors. It was to correct for a height difference between our motors and our pillow blocks/ arm mounts. It also cushions the chassis from motor vibrations. We also put rubber padding between the flaps and the chassis. We did this because the flaps rotate too far out and after we put rubber padding between the two it corrects for the problem.
Our final modification was to correct for the squash balls getting stuck underneath our chassis. We corrected this problem by taking copper wire and putting beads on it, and placing this underneath the chassis. It helps the balls roll more smoothly while preventing them and our machine from getting stuck.
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