Week 6: Day 35

Going back to work on the prototype-bot. A lot of the faulty programming has been corrected and the new digital side-car is working fine at the moment.  Programing and testing is now underway on the robot’s turret.  As of now preparation for reattaching the CRIO on the actual is going on tonight too.Matthew PlamowskiMechanical team

Week 6: Day 33

We accomplished quite a lot today. We are focusing in on just the electrical and programing side of things now. We have both robots finished as far as the mechanics go. The only thing left to do now is to finish the wiring on the small robot and work out the programing bugs on both …

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 …