Build Day 26: Starting to Build Spares

We aren't finished with our robot yet, but we began the process of building the practice robot parts today. We know certain systems won't change drastically so we are beginning to manufacture…

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Build Day 24

It was a short day, Monday's seem shorter than most for some reason. Even though we don't have the jaguars yet, we crimped all the ring terminals for the Jaguars…

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Build Day 23: And the wiring begins

Electrical is now the main priority for the robot. We have most of the mechanical systems mounted but we need to get the electrical on so see we can begin testing. The Jaguar board…

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Build Day 22: Start of Week 4

It seems like forever a go we were watching the kickoff presentation but it's already nearing the half way point of the build season. We did most of the electrical…

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Build 21

We were able to power the collector today with motors, the tests were promising but also pointed out a couple places that we need to fix things, such as how…

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Build Day 18

More assembly today. We made the Lexan back panel for our collector and elevator. We're using 1/16" Lexan because it's able to easily curve to the angles that we need…

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