Day 8: Elevator and Controls

Elevator go brrr (doesn’t go brrr yet).

Today we made a lot of progress on manufacturing alpha. We made an elevator using 2x1 REV MAXTube and the Thrifty Bot bearing blocks. Unfortunately, the pattern doesn’t match up to the MAXTube, so we had to match drill into it. Our Final version might use the West Coast Elevator bearing blocks because they match up to the MAXTube. Here is a picture of our progress:

Controls

Our Apriltags came in today, and we got them on the acrylic backing. Gamma Ray 2021 was upgraded to 2023 Code and Firmware to help start getting our code base for X-Ray 2023.