Week 6: Day 36

Today we were finishing up work on the robot for the scrimmage match tomorrow. I was working with Jessica. We were working on attaching brackets to the robot to mount sensors on. The Team still needs to attach the bumpers and finish up some programming issues. We should be ready for the scrimmage if everything …

OUR ROBOTS!!!! :-)

Our Official Robot… And Our Prototype Robot!!!  *They have to share the launcher, at least they are nice about it.

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 …