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AwardsReminder your Chairman's Award and Woodie Flower's Award essay's are due Thursday afternoon, get them done and submitted tomorrow night so you aren't worried on Thursday trying to do it.SheetmetalWe…

Intake UpdatesThis is intake version 8 for us. We modified the arm angles to improve the geometry and moved to smaller pulleys and smaller pneumatic cylinders. We did have to…

We were testing how narrow our max opening could be for the intake arms and during the testing the intake decided instead of slipping against the cube it would rather…

Most of the past few days has been lots of CAD work for the subsystem teams. Getting the first major subsystems ready to be sent to our laser sponsor, Solarcraft,…

IntakeThe new intake prototype was the main focus for testing this weekend. We only CAD enough of it so that we can assemble and build it quickly.Download CAD of the intake…

Hook prototypesWe are working through some basic routed hook prototypes to see how the pneumatic fold out will work on the robot. We also hung some sandbags from the wooden…

Vlogs and Video Updates from other teamsA ton of teams have been making build Vlogs this year on YouTube but they aren't the easiest to find. We've compiled a big…

Today was probably the end of the our 4 bar intake prototype. We had some goals for the intake design and it does meet some of those goals but we…

We received our Fairlane wheels in the male today. These are the 20A Nitrile durasoft wheels.They hold the cube far better than the our previous attempts.- Spectrum"If you have no…