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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

We upgraded the shooter prototype even more today by making our Tri-wheeled shooter use multiple wheels so they act like rollers instead of wheels. We still don't have multiple balls…

Relatively short build meeting, today. We were able to make the next iteration on the shooter by adding a third motor to the top of the shooter. Tomorrow we will…

We completed the third of three very long build sessions today. Shooter The main progress of today was a couple new iterations on our shooter prototypes. The morning started by…