Day 35: Launching Better
We spent the day gathering all the parts for the competition robot. We still don't have the sheet metal back yet but that should be Monday. We want to have…
We spent the day gathering all the parts for the competition robot. We still don't have the sheet metal back yet but that should be Monday. We want to have…
We're sort of just waiting on the parts to come back from powder coat at this point. Lots of little things going on but not much major work. We're reworking…
Sorry for no post yesterday, we had a really short meeting since there were parent-teacher conferences. Mostly worked on chairman's award stuff. We'll start with a video today of us…
This morning we got a call from VEX explaining that they had intentionally shipped the incorrect rollers with the 4" mecanum wheels so that they could get the product out…
Well today was interesting. We started the day by taking off the mecanum wheels from our drive train and replacing them with the omniwheels. We have the robot set up…
This is a hard post to write. It's just been one of those days where nothing goes well. We had some problems yesterday but we were pretty optimistic we would…
We started the day off with a visit from one of our local FLL teams, from The St. Thomas More School. These students were all 5th through 7th grades and…
We received our 4 MiniCIMs from West Coast Products today. VexPro was out of stock but R.C. over at WCP was able to get us what we needed. They also…
Lots of robot pictures today. We got the back panel mostly constructed and the collector mounted. The robot in this configuration weights 117lbs with the battery. That means we should…
We just got our second run of laser cut parts back from our sponsor's facility. One of our students was there till almost midnight getting everything cut and bent for…