Day 10: Chassis Construction
We received our VEXpro chassis today and various other parts from VEX Robotics. This new line of off-the-shelf parts has been extremely useful this year. We should have sprockets and wheels…
We received our VEXpro chassis today and various other parts from VEX Robotics. This new line of off-the-shelf parts has been extremely useful this year. We should have sprockets and wheels…
Today was the first of two Houston Area Kit Bot Build Days. Spectrum brought 15 people to the event to help teams, put together their kit chassis, and assemble their…
We had another long day but we made some good progress. We were even able to mount a prototype of the collector to Violet (our 2012 robot) and drive around…
It's strange how fast you can go from feeling way ahead to feeling behind. After far too much talking, math, CAD, and VEX prototypes we have decided to pay less…
Our design was going along a little too well. We knew something wasn't right and we finally figured it out. Using this mess on the white board and a very…
The mad race to get working prototypes continued for day 5. We made some new discoveries that we have to deal with in our designs but nothing seems to be…
So far everything has been going very smoothly this season. We have had parents bringing very delicious meals to the team, which we are very grateful for. One of our…
We keep moving. We have had several versions of shooters, but this is the first one worth posting about. It uses an R/C dune buggy wheel to fire the disk.…
We were back at it this morning. Several of us spent well over 24 hours in the lab this weekend. We have done more prototyping in 2 days than we…
The game for 2013 was released this morning. We will be back nightly to build and will post updates from here on out. And here's the game FRC 2013 Ultimate…