The Mecanum Bot

November 23, 2009

First, much thanks are owed to Kevin for getting the Paradox Blog up and running. I feel that now with this and the newsletter (as well as the other fixes Kevin made to the website) Team Paradox finally has a legitimate online presence again.

Today marked the groundbreaking of the preseason finale project: The Mecanum Bot! (Dubbed "The Foote"). This afternoon in room 100 seven of us got together to set goals and brainstorm models for the design of the chassis. With the ultimate purpose of carrying Kevin around on its back, we decided to go with a triangular trussed crossbar design for strength, lightness, and ease of construction.

Thank you very much to all who attended, and kudos on all the wonderful designs. While we are going to go with the Tatiana/Isaac/Willie design, I also want to go over the arched and keystone designs with our mentors and teachers, because while we are not using them for this project, I want to keep them in our peripheral vision. Any sort of expansion on the clubs overall knowledge base is awesome, and these designs have the possibility of solving weight and support issues that Buttercup faced. I'll email those involved with more info.

In other fantastic news, the Street Fair was wildly successful! Thank you very much Annie and Karen for working so hard on putting this together. Technically, this was about 1000% as successful as our previous Street Fair appearances, and I would venture to boost the number even higher due to the massive crowds we drew!

Go 2102!

Isaac S.