Well….. Today has been a rather slow day. In the computer room the focus was on organizing our websites and finding places where we can get team buttons and other trinkets. In the machine shop Jeremiah and Ryan worked on a wooden cardinal named Bobby. Tim and Mike worked on the pneumatics on Marvin. The …
Tonight was our first official meeting after the debrief last week. Last week we went over the pros and cons of Boilermaker this year. We talked a lot about what we can do next year to improve our team and our robot. Tonight we had a major clean up day to start the off season …
So today we are going to be loading up pretty much our entire workshop into a trailer along with our robot to take to Purdue for the Boilermaker Regional competition tomorrow. We will finish loading sometime this afternoon and hopefully we will be ready to go at 5:30 AM Thursday for an amazing and fun …
We just worked on our shooting and driving today. So far it is looking like the shooter design we have chosen is going to be more trouble than anything else. For some reason the balls all have different consistencies so they all shoot differently. Our next meeting is not until next Saturday. Hopefully we can …
There was not a whole lot to do tonight. Basically we just worked on getting the prototype bot in working condition. This means working on the program, fixing the sensors, making sure the turret works, and generally tweaking things. Hopefully by tomorrow we will have a drivable and otherwise fully functional robot so that we …