The Bot

Bot Description

The bot is built off of the NURC RoV Kit with an added thermometer, strafing thruster, and net to achieve our goals. Our bot aims to be lightweight and neutrally buoyant. The kit consists of 4 motors and a strafing motor to move left/right in order to have a large amount of mobility underwater. There is also a cylinder in the middle that will house all of the non-water resistant parts. The bot also features a watertight chamber to contain the wire ends and important electronics. 

Tuesday 6/3/25

When today opened, the mentors introduced themselves and where they were from and all members also stated where they were from and a fun fact. The first portion of the day was spent playing team-building games, but rapidly the group was divided into 4 groups (2 mechanical 2 electrical) and the mechanical assembled the chassis while the electrical worked on preparing the turbines for attachment. Mechanical and electrical eventually merged into 2 teams, each with one mechanical and electrical group. This division ended up sticking as the teams wanted to stay together.

Wednesday 6/4/25

On Wednesday, the team got moved to a better suited working area and began rapidly advancing on the bot. On top of this, the team toured the campus' aeronautical facilities. The team also worked on prototyping various mechanisms in order to improve the efficiency of scoring. Team members began rapidly advancing on the soldering of the PCB boards. The team was also given the pieces of a claw mechanism which currently did not contain instructions (only an image of a finished product) and were told to attempt to assemble it.

Thursday 6/5/25

On Thursday the team got time to work on the static and flexible (bot-based) scoring systems. As well as the finishing of the PCB soldering. The team also got to tour the Polytechnic campus robotics and 3D printing facilities. The media team completed most of the presentation and parts of the video as well as made rapid website advances. The team members were also able to see the code, however due to more being required to run it, no changes were made. Other parts of the team continued attempting to build a claw mechanism.

Friday 6/6/25

On Friday the team began the finishing touches on the robot and began wrapping up  the media. The website was tuned and how it looks was improved, as well as uploading a video of the bot. Other important data was added, the team also attempted to get controllers to work and worked on that, as well as practiced the presentation. Then the team met one of the people from the movie "Spare Parts" and got to interview them. After lunch one division began working on today's portion of the journal and website as well as finishing up the video while the other took the robot out to the practice field.