Week 6: Day 31

We had a small group today as most of our team members were working on our still unnamed robot until 5am. We did get a little more work done though. The ball lifter has a sleek looking plastic cover over it. Most of the wiring on the prototype is finished, but still need to get …

Some photos from our all-nighter

Mike and Tommy doing something else Tim and Douglas doing something People working on the prototype bot Tyler and Gary cutting wood for the bumpers Ryan…. Actually working 😉 Talking about what to do next… Top secret programming meeting Measure twice cut once Anna and Hannah power team Dakotah and Michael working on the ramp …

Week 6: Day 30

Greetings from FIRST Team 1720. Tonight was our first, and hopefully only, all-night event of the season. Although the team has been extremely diligent in the last month, meeting six times a week, we’ve really struggled to come up with a good design for the basketball shooting mechanism. We prototyped much longer than we planned, …