Day 31: Weekend Recap
We spent a lot of time helping other teams this weekend. One rookie and two other teams came by for helping building their robot, building bumpers, or working out control…
Day 28: Helping Hand
A rookie team we are mentoring came to use with some problems with their robot. The drive train wasn't performing liked they wanted and the pneumatic gripper intake wasn't collecting…
Day 26: Production Ready Intake
This is our intake ready for drawing to be made and sent off for production. This model doesn't show the intake rollers that go over the tube axles or the…
Day 24: Drive Train CAD
The drive train CAD is nearly complete. We have been referencing a lot of 1114's designs this year and their awesome Solidworks tutorial videos as well. We still have bumper…
Day 22: Strategy and Scouting
We had a long discussion about our scouting and strategy plan for the 2016 season. We are adopting many of the techniques used by 118 The Robonauts as presented by…
Day 21: Intake
We finished the wooden intake today. It has a few geometry errors that we need to fix before going into production on the real one. We also learned how to…
Day 19: Wooden Chassis and CAD
We wired up our wooden chassis today and have it driving around. It's not the best prototype since it is far less rigid then the real robot will be, but…
Day 18: The Q&A
We are over a third of the way through the season and the Q&A has already led to some big rule updates (a critical field dimension even changed). We want…
Day 17: Brief Update
We spent the weekend getting things ready for building our wooden prototype. We have two drive rails mostly assembled and should be completed tomorrow with the addition of a VEXpro…
Day 14: Week 2 Design Review
We had our design review meeting. Here is a very rough CAD sketch of the current robot plan. It has two folding arms one for breaching and scaling and another…