November, 2013 First ideas were created, including the rescue bot, and sharks with lasers.

January, 2014 We built first prototype on a track-based system

January 16, 2014 We made Dont you hate it when statements. One such statement was dont you hate it when your baby gets stolen?

January 31, 2014 Our team made a brochure for our Capstone Project, officially adopting our name to JECS from the previous Medina County Career Center Engineering Technologies and Design Research and Development Science Group

February 11, 2014 Our Team looked up existing patents and designs, and adjusted our ideas from what we found

February 19, 2014 We explored our individual ideas more in depth, ranging from quad rotors to an Indiana Jones Boulder.

February 20, 2014 Our final choice ended up being a simplistic swiveling camera with tasers attached. A rover was also added for the dark areas March 14, 2014 We decided to make tests for our design after we prototyped it. Testing details below.

April 15, 2014 We had an expert, Doug Cambell, come in and speak to our team about which steps we could

April 16, 2014 We worked on our trifold, and added a new bearing system for our turret

Next Step Creating a floor plan for our security system as an example, and present it to our Instructor.

Range Testing: Starting from 0 feet, we set up the bot and set it out on a linear path to test how far the camera would broadcast. This also included testing how large the range for the VEX Cortex connection is.

Dart and Barrel Testing: Distance Testing We wanted to maximize distance projectiles could be shot, so we designed different barrels and bullets and tested them.

Precision Testing: After we decided which barrels ranked top in the distance test, we built a housing unit that held each of the barrels and aimed it at a wall. On the wall we set up a Cartesian plane from which we could calculate precision. We started by coloring the dart before shooting it, this would leave a yellow dot where the dart came in first contact with the paper. The dart was shot five times before we calculated the centroid from which we found the average distance. This represented our precision.

Strength Testing: We started by timing how long it took the main bot to go from 0 to 4 feet. We took the average of the large and small bot using two different types of treads and a wheel. The below graph shows the test without weights.

Strength Testing Cont.: The next graph shows the same circumstances as before plus we added 50% of the bots weight. The smaller bot was 1840g, so we added 920g and the larger bot is 2448g, so we added 1224g.

Average Strength: We found the average strength of each bot to find which one would better fit the requirements for the moving turret.