Things are Coming Together in Build Week Five

  This week the build team has the robot almost finished while the animation team works on an animation for the 2016 Dave Lavery Animation Award. The programming team is preparing for a long stretch ahead, as the media them polishes the website. Our team looks forward to the competitions ahead. Here’s a huge thanks …

High Expectations In Build Week Four

  Here at the PhyXTGears headquarters things are coming together excellently, as the team works hard to reach their goal. The chassis has been assembled and painted, the shooter mechanism is functional, and all of the game pieces have been built. The team works quickly as “Bag and Tag Day” grows ever closer. While the …

Team 1720 welding

January 19th Progress

As we begin Week 2 of build season here at PhyXTGears, everyone kicks things into high gear. The animation team, whose current focus this month was 2016 Safety Animation.  Everyone worked tirelessly. Here’s the final product. The machine room has been buzzing tonight. Chris has been working on building the shooting mechanism for the boulders in …