What are the PhyXTGears up to? Well, here at the end of build week one we have started to prototype some of the ideas our students and mentors presented on Tuesday. The Woodworking team is very busy working on the complicated field pieces for this year’s game. Over in the mechanical room students are working …
Holy smokes Batman, it’s time you meet the BattHawk! Here at Muncie’s Robotics, we have manufactured a new design, the BattHawk™. It is a voltmeter that can replace a battery flag, measuring the battery voltage without draining it significantly during competition times. This can help dramatically since the status of all the batteries will be …
What do ramps, sensors, scoops, hooks, pulleys, gaps, and flippers have in common? These are all parts of design brainstorms from PhyXTGears team members and mentors that were presented, explained, and discussed in detail at tonight’s planning and strategy meeting at the shop tonight. Our team was excited to share their ideas and hear the …
Here in Muncie, one of the PhyXTGears new FLL sibling teams, the Sprockets, went to a competition Nov. 11 in Kokomo. They presented their team’s core values and team water project to the judges before competing with the designed, built, and programmed to do a variety of tasks. The problem the team chose to …
The Planetary Gears are out of this world! The PhyXTGears are very excited to launch our first FIRST Lego League (FLL) team in our home at the Madjax Maker’s Force in downtown Muncie. The Planetary Gears kicked off their season August twenty-ninth with several interested parents and students. The new FLL team will build a Lego …