Attendance:

Alex, Charles, Cameron, Drew and Zach

Goals:  

• To get the linear lift to a point where it can pick up the robot
• To fix the speed of the motor that extends the XRail
• To fix the problem with the motor that rotates the XRail not being strong enough to hold the weight of the fully extended XRail
• Add a bar to the back of the robot to stop the XRail from slamming into the ground

Meeting Notes

• To get the linear lift to a point where it can pick up the robot
  • Status: Complete
    • We have gotten the XRail to a point where it can pick up the robot successfully
      • The reason it was unable to work earlier was because the transmission of the previous motor was bad

• To fix the speed of the motor that extends the XRail
  • Status: Impossible
    • It is impossible to change the speed of the motor without making it go above 100% power
• To fix the problem with the motor that rotates the XRail not being strong enough to hold the weight of the fully extended XRail
  • Status: Incomplete
    • We tried to use counterweights to balance the weight from the fully extended XRail but the counter weights were not heavy enough and te XRail continued to sink
• Add a bar to the back of the robot to stop the XRail from slamming into the ground
  • Status: Undecided
    • Although we decided last meeting to add a bar to the back of the robot, we were undecided at the start of this meeting we figured that we would use the space for something else
• List of issues to fix