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Tuesday 4/30/19: Finished up the schematic up until where Chandler, Chris, and Dave are on the wiring. I'm going to be adding another page to show more detail into the wiring on the motors, PLCs, and limit switches on Thursday.

Tuesday April 30: Today Chris and dave worked in getting the program written on the PLC to communicate to the robot to have it do certain moves. Later in the day we were able to make the block of wood go to the end on the intake conveyor and trigging the limit switch and stop the conveyor and start the translation table to get the robot down to retrieve the block. However the robot would not stop at that point. the Proximity sensor was counting to 5 but wasn't stopping the motor once it got to 5. Thursday we are hoping to solve the issue.

Thursday May 2: Today Chris was trying to dial in the first move on the PLC program. By the time he left he ended up getting it to work. I was there with the robot program and helping with positioning the robot and getting the conveyer reading for each run.

This week I worked on the PowerPoint more I still am waiting on the tri-board if that is still a thing, I did a lot more brainstorming on what do I want to add or take from this project. I want clarity to be a thing also so I want to make sure I am being very clear on this . I plan on rereading and and rehearsing and asking rick for a tri-board.

we finished the schematic but we are going to be adding more page to show detail on the motor, PLcs and limit switches.