What did you do today?

[lynnmor 7,411]

19 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

I much prefer to plow, it's quicker, quieter, and more fun.   But at 14 degrees and some wind today, I hid in the warm cab.   Might have to look for a cab for the plow tractor.

I like plowing as well but if there is much snow I don't want the piles accumulating.  So I blow off the majority and do some touchup work with a plow.  This time a sheet of frozen slush formed first I had to do a complete plowing after a complete snowblowing. 

[MainelyWheelhorse 687]

Today, I visited with family. Plowed with the old 308. Then, shoveled the front steps, oil fill, and in front of two garages for a family friend with mobility issues. 

[8ntruck 7,197]

Lots of no school days lately.  This means I've been spending about 8 hours a day mentoring the local robotics team.  Last week, the team decided to set back and look at an alternate design for the robot, so they spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday adding away at the new idea.  I was guiding the students I work with to prototype the new ideas - the most critical being the climbing mechanism.  Turns out that the new ideas did not work as well as they thought they would.  My group's prototyping had a large part in showing how things would really work.

 

Sunday's session started off with a design review that resulted in pulling the original design off of the shelf and continuing it's development.  

 

Tonight, my group finished up climber mark 3.3 with a successful test climb.

 

As a side note, we had posted climber mark 1 pictures out on the internet a week otr 10 days ago.   With our team being a 2024 world champion, it seems that other teams are paying a bit more attention to what we are doing.  Today, a short video showed up of another team's climber prototype inspired by our mark 1 climber.  Somewhat of a new experience for us.  We will probably have more pit visitors at the competitions that we will be attending this year as well.

Edited 5 hours ago by 8ntruck