Day 9: Boot Camp Build Day
We opened up our lab to three teams from the area to come in and get assistance with the start of their seasons. We did a strategy and design talk…
Day 8: Start of Week 2
Long Saturday in the lab we are working though getting the prototypes assembled and finding the sticking points that we need to improve.The intake is much closer to fully being…
Day 7: Climbing
We continued working on prototypes, including retro fitting one of our off-season robots to be a climbing test bed. We had it do a test climb but we had attached…
Day 6: Prototypes are getting closer
As we said earlier we have made an effort to make sure we are doing a better job of actually designing our prototypes this year.Before we build a prototype for…
Day 5: More Design Work
Most of the day was spent in CAD refining the designs of our prototypes.We changed the design of the bottom plate of our ground intake to include a moving belt…
Day 4: Recap
We're now 4 days through the season. This is when teams are finalizing their initial designs and beginning to build more high quality prototypes.Strategy BreakdownOne of the main goals for…
Day 3: Rethinking our intial plans
We started the day by going back over the strategy notes from Saturday and seeing what assumptions we made that may not actually be true.This led us to rethink several…
Day 2: Full STEAM ahead
Robot Design is BeginningWe started brainstorming designs and working through solutions to our strategy goals. A bunch of sketches were done today for various parts of our robot design. There is…
Day 1: STEAMworks has arrived
After months of anticipation the 2017 FRC game is finally here. Check out the video below.Today we accomplished the most important task of the season. We read and understood the…
Dialing Back the Server Turbine
BackstoryWe recently outfitted room 3103C (our side room/kitchen/overflow) with the rolling A/V rack we use for events, and a 2U dual-Xeon server for storage and possibly for rendering some new…