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Read more about the article Day 17: Another Long Work Day

Day 17: Another Long Work Day

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 21, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

We were off from school for MLK so we had another long work day. We improved our pneumatic launcher to where it give a nice chest pass. We aren't trying…

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Read more about the article Day 16: Mechanism CADing

Day 16: Mechanism CADing

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 20, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

We worked more on CADing up the game specific mechanism for our robot. Most of it is still in draft form but we're pretty happy with the direction it is…

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Read more about the article Day 15: Robots and Rookies

Day 15: Robots and Rookies

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 19, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

 We put together as much of the chassis as we could. This one ways about 50lbs as shown here. The real one will be lighter as some of the main…

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Read more about the article Day 14: Two Weeks Down

Day 14: Two Weeks Down

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 18, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

After the sheet metal came in today, we started construction on the practice robot. We set up a test version of our octocanum modules. The drive train will hopefully be…

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Read more about the article Day 13: Sheet Metal

Day 13: Sheet Metal

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 17, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

We finished the CAD for our chassis and a few other parts yesterday and one of our seniors who interned with our sponsor Solarcraft was able to go to their…

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Day 12: Trussing

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 16, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

Tonight we finally started having success with one of our shooting mechanisms. We were able to score in the high goal and truss with this shooter. This shooter is heavily…

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Read more about the article Day 11: Drive Train CAD Complete

Day 11: Drive Train CAD Complete

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 15, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

We finalized the CAD for the drive train today. We are cutting a heavy version for our practice bot that doesn't have a lot of holes that will be in…

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Read more about the article Day 10: Back to Blogging

Day 10: Back to Blogging

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 14, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

Sorry we missed a couple days. We had a Bootcamp build day yesterday where we helped 5 teams get their AM14U up and working. We were back to work today,…

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Read more about the article Day 7: It’s been a week

Day 7: It’s been a week

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 11, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

We continued improving our prototypes today after our design meeting yesterday. We modified our collector prototype to a version inspired by one of our VEX robots from this year.  …

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Read more about the article Day 6: Need, Want, Wish…

Day 6: Need, Want, Wish…

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 10, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

Today was our first design review. We have seen the 72 hour builds, prototyped a little, and  played a human version of Aerial Assist. We think we have a good…

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