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the sheet metal plates will now have a hole cut out of the bottom so that lyle can rotate his CIM's throught the plates to give us more room and still be able to work on the drivetrain gearboxes easily.

Today we split our work into two parts. Joaquin did CAD and discussed with the other subteams to get final dimensions. He got the "80/20" mock bar CADed. Started on the sheet metal side plates and downloaded the CAD models for the linear sliders. The rest of the team worked on a wood and scrap metal prototype to try and get a semi-working model. They got about halfway done with their building. They cut all the 80/20 down to size, added C-channel to simulate the linear bearings. They mapped out the entire design on the plywood with sharpie, found and cut the wood needed for the prototyoe and they drilled most of the holes into the plywood. We picked a new pulley after realizing that the pulley that we had earlier would not allow the cable to pass through without rubbing against the metal mount. After a bit of designing with Neil and Jack and Kavi, we decided on a side mounted pulley that will attach to a cross-beam. The full design with all of the dimensions can be found in the computer 5 notebook. Some of these dimensions are not final and still need to be discussed. 

• Need to make a full CAD of the design, lots of dimensions are constantly changing

• Continue CAD
• Finish the prototype
• integrate prototype with the grabber prototype
• finish up BOM with any new materials

We are on schedule