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**April 19th, 2011**, //__Day One__ of our building progress//

Today we began the first day of building our project. We worked mainly on designing our robot. We came up with several ideas, and we began working on our first design. We also got our initial due date of May 6th.

**April 20th, 2011**, //__Day Two__ of our building progress//

Today, we began our day by finishing the design of our robot and starting to build the chassis on our robot. We made a few minor adjustments to the plan such as using a one way roller griper, instead of a two way griper. Due to the limit on the amount of motors we needed, we decided to make ours similar to the size of squarebot.

During our first work period we were able to finish the base of the chassis, and also got a good start on the griper.

**April 21st, 2011**, //__Day Three__ of our building progress// Today is the third day that we have been working on our robot and we accomplished a lot during the past two days. As it was the last day before the break, as well as the shortest day in the week, it was a bit hard to concentrate. We did not do much today; we were able to finished our chassis that we started yesterday and we made great progress on our robotic hand.

After seeing a group having a fully complete prototype, we felt the pressure. We hoped that we could get past them after break; during this week we finished off most of our planning along with most of the designs. We expect that when we get back it will be smooth sailing and things will work out much faster.

**//(April Break)//**

**May 2nd, 2011**, //__Day Four__ of our building progress// <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Today is our the first day back from our Easter break. After the brief break from school, we begin our day with working on our robot. Today we accomplished several tasks. We finished the chassis, and we tested all of our motors and our servos. We also gained another member of our team, Robert.

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**May 3rd, 2011**, //__Day Five__ of our building progress// <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The second day back from the break, half our group is dragged away to psychology seminar on body images. Still with fifty percent of our potential we completed a quiet lot. We manage to finish the right grabber, by the end of the day we were able to finish the grabber mechanism and scoop. We felt we have accomplished a lot today, and felt are closer to finish our project.

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**May 4th, 2011**, //__Day Six__ of our building progress// <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The third day back from the break, we begin to work on the connecting the grabber mechanism, the brain, and the battery connections to our robot. We actually did quiet lot in the first 20 minutes of the class, we finished the mean connecting structure for our robot, we also finished a large portion of the holding mechanism for the batter and the brain. Then we were called to the computer room to career education.

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**May 5th, 2011**, Teacher Strike <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Today is suppose to be day seven of our building process, but class is cancelled due to the teacher strike.

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**May 6th, 2011**, Career education <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Again we are called to do some career education in the computer lab. However Mrs. Konkin did not show up, so we had awesome time watching the 2006 robotics race across the desert.

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**May 9th, 2011**, __Day Seven__ //of our building progress// <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Following a chain of unfortunate events and many lost work days, today we restarted our working progress. We were informed that the alternate due date for our project is Wednesday May the 11th. We were also told that Mr. Kapphahn will be away for the next two days, and will be back soon. The sub gave us the entire class to work on our project and we took the full advantage of it. We were able to finish the majority of the building progress today. We finished attaching the battery, and the brain to the robot. We finished most of the work attaching the roller gripper to our robot. It was a really productive day. We will begin programing our robot tomorrow.

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**May 10th, 2011**, __Day Eight__ //of our building progress// <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Today we finished building our robot. We worked out several problems that we had on our robot. We managed to get our robot working by the end of the day. We fixed the roller griper by changing the gear ratio, which gave it more torque and power. We also adjusted a few other settings, today we begin the first day of our programing. We have written out the code for the remote. We also successfully tested our roller grip on a can theat Robert bought. It was over all a very productive day, we accomplished a lot and we made many fine adjustments to make the robot work better.

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**May 11th, 2011**, __Day Nine__ //of our building progress: the test// <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Today was the show day of 'Cola Pushing Bot'. It was the day of long time anticipation. We finished the last few adjustment today. The robot worked good at first, soon we realized there were several issues. The roller grip worked as well as we hoped however the the Squarebot base have some issue turning the robot. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Today manage to achieve today we begin the long waited the test

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">May 12th, 2011. Day 10 of our building progress: The Revision <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Today we made a few, we also