A group led the testing of ideas for the tether for this year’s robot. We know that we cannot use foam for buoyancy as we have in years past, as it will compress too much and lose its buoyant force forty feet underwater. We started work on the first prototype for the well cap. The [...]
After some debate and discussion the team agreed that we are going to standardize our robot on the robot for this year. We agreed that our hardware (like the nuts and bolts) will be using standard measurements, while all other dimensions, like the ROV dimensions, will be using metric units. We developed a timeline for [...]
MATE released our game the day before. We voted on a logo for the team. We broke into two separate groups to read the rules for this year. After reading the rules separately we came back together as a team and each group gave their interpretation of the rules. This made sure that we read [...]
This was a training day for the team. A safety presentation and PowerPoint was led by the team captain. One of our mentors presented a basic introduction to the field of underwater robotics. A group of people worked on programming our old robot for practice while new members practiced using the tools in the lab. [...]