Week 6: Day 32

As the season winds down to the end the intensity rises and makes it fun, challenging,and stressful all adding to the wonderful experience of First. Tonight we started wiring the robot and hooking up pneumatics, it is pretty cool to see the robot coming together. We also had potential drive team members take the drive …

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 …

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, …

Week 5: Day 29

The prototype robot is almost finished. Jeremiah worked on the frame to make it stronger. Dakotah worked on the driving mechanism. Anna put the shooter on the prototype robot. We have a chain on the thing that picks up the basketballs now too. Ashley Mechanical/Documentation