Archives for September, 2008

We will be meeting next weekend for both days. I am taking the SAT Saturday morning, and we will meet at my house afterwards. First priority will probably be the steering system. We have still been unable to create a working rack-and-pinion system, and no other type of system has worked properly so far, even [...]

We finished work a few hours ago, as Will had to get home.  We did manage to complete the crank system for the transmission.  We thought this would be the last major piece of construction we did, but we were unfortunately wrong.  We have again taken apart the steering system.  This marks at least the [...]

Will and I are having an unexpected work session today.  So far, we’ve created a new system for moving the transmission between first and second gears.  It’s based on a crank rather than a rack and pinion as we had before.  It could potentially provide more power and be much more compact.  We are also [...]

LEGO® finally got back to me on the RCX voltage issue, but they said they did not know, and referred me to Philo’s site. He has some excellent resources but his site did not answer our question. I e-mailed him and he promptly responded, shooting down our li-ion proposition, bringing into our awareness the possibility [...]

We have finished work for the day.  We redesigned the transmission to incorporate a lower gearing ratio.  This should solve the problem we had earlier of second gear not being powerful enough.  We also completed a newly redesigned track system for the transmission to slide on.  We did not finish reincorporating the gear system that [...]

Harpo is at the hospital right now as he needs to get a bad cough of his looked into.  I am at his house, and I cannot make much progress on the car without Harpo here, so I have decided to do more research.  We have decided that we are going to take out a [...]

Due to health circumstances, I am forced to leave for a little while. However, Lyle has called (and hell has frozen over) to say that he’ll be joining us. I also spoke to Simon on Saturday, and he plans to come by as well. Will and I found it somewhat amusing that we have the [...]

Will has arrived, and we are beginning work.