This worked out well because we were able to get the whole thing laser cut and fully constructed relatively quickly. Throughout the course of the build today, we worked on constructing the 3D CAD design that one of the students made the day before. For the future, we still have to see how effective the new design is before we CAD the real intake for the robot, but it is likely that this will be the preferred design because of the simplicity of having just 2 rollers. We are still in the assembly stage of the new and improved version, so we will see tomorrow how well it works with the improvements.

The compression seemed to be too little at the top of the bumper because we didn't account for the bumper compressing alongside the ball, so we went back in CAD and redesigned the geometry of the upper roller to have increased compression. the compression was too little on top of the bumper and it sometimes got stuck. Taking the intake design from yesterday using two polyurethane rollers, we laser cut and assembled it, discovering that while it was able to pull balls up and over the bumper, the balls sometimes got stuck. While we did not have enough time to finish developing the prototype, we have all of the pieces and can finish it quickly tomorrow. We scavenged the 3:1 VersaPlanetary gearboxes from our previous prototype. In the process of setting up the next prototype, we found we lacked enough polycord pulleys, and machined more out of some delrin stock.

As we proved this flywheel could attain a high throughput, we transitioned today to begin testing different wheel types and compression as well as the conveyor system.

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