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Read more about the article Day 10: Chassis Construction

Day 10: Chassis Construction

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 15, 2013
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Read more about the article Day 9: First Kit Bot Build Day

Day 9: First Kit Bot Build Day

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 14, 2013
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Read more about the article Day 8: Coming back around

Day 8: Coming back around

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 13, 2013
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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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 12, 2013
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Read more about the article Day 6: It finally happened

Day 6: It finally happened

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 11, 2013
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Read more about the article 2013 Day 5: prototyping everything

2013 Day 5: prototyping everything

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 10, 2013
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Build Season Day 4: Things are looking good

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 9, 2013
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Ultimate Ascent Day #3: First prototype video

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 8, 2013
  • Post category:Blog

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.…

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Read more about the article 2013 Build Season Day 2

2013 Build Season Day 2

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 7, 2013
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Read more about the article Spectrum 3847 – 2013 FRC Build Log: It’s finally here

Spectrum 3847 – 2013 FRC Build Log: It’s finally here

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 6, 2013
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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