Quartermania

Here at PhyXTGears, we are hosting a fundraiser called Quartermania! It will be a fun and an exciting event where you will be able to win some great prizes! This new fundraiser, however, will be a cross between an auction and the game bingo. At the start, you will be given three paddles and a …

Build-Season Week 6

Here at PhyXTGears, we’ve already made it to week 6! Yet, we are still readily continuing on working through the build-season with only just a few meetings remaining. So here are some things we have been working on: The media team has been working tirelessly on the Chairman’s Award, an essay and video embodying what we do …

Swerving into Build Week One

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 …

The Design of the BattHawk

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 …