How is the robot coming along? Well, to get an accurate idea, I joined Moriah for the morning to get a first hand experience in the world of mechanics. We started by making brackets for the pneumatic tank (that holds the air pressure). We took a one inch wide strip of plastic to make into …
Our team, Muncie Delaware Robotics, attended an off-season all girls event called RAGE. Team 234, Cyber Blue, hosts this competition at their high school in Indianapolis, IN, every year. In the pits (where the robots are kept between matches) each team had a “host,” a woman with an engineering career, that our team explained the basics …
The PhyXTGears is currently creating a plastic injection mold so that we can manufacture battery meters to use around the shop. The plastic injection molding machine is a manually operated plastic mold for parts. It creates battery meters that are used to show how much power the battery has left. It is made of …
Recently our team enjoyed an evening at Canan Commons With the children of Muncie. Our team lead children on wagon rides as well as teaching them how to solve puzzles. After the pictures with Elmo had ended and our team had packed up, everyone pulled up a chair and watched the featured movie …
This year, our first district event was the Walker Warren event held at Walker Warren high school in Indy. Our team made it all the way to the alliance selections and was then picked by the first seeded* team. After alliance selection ended, our alliance made through all of the finals and, in …