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

Week 5: Day 27

The main bot has made a good bit of progress today. Ryan installed the wheels, and Jessica and Hannah put in the ball vacuum chain and installed the ball roller cylinders. The driver station has had more work done as well: Shawn put in a third control stick thingy. The Andrews have made good progress …

Week 5:Day 26

Today we continued work on our robot. Dakotah has been working on the drive train, Nathan has been working on the turret, and Jeremiah has been working on electrical work. We are moving along quickly, and we are making progress.Maggie Taylor