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Day 35: Launching Better

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:February 8, 2014
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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…

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Day 34: Withholding allowance and 3D printed parts

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:February 7, 2014
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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…

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Read more about the article Day 33: Fixing our mistakes

Day 33: Fixing our mistakes

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:February 6, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Day 31: More mecanum news & catching video

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:February 4, 2014
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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…

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Read more about the article Day 30: When life gives you mecanums

Day 30: When life gives you mecanums

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:February 3, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Read more about the article Day 29: Mama said there’d be days like this

Day 29: Mama said there’d be days like this

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:February 2, 2014
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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…

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Read more about the article Day 28: Full Robot Demo for FLL Team Visit

Day 28: Full Robot Demo for FLL Team Visit

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:February 1, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Day 27: More Power + Collection Testing

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 31, 2014
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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…

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Read more about the article Day 26: It looks like a robot

Day 26: It looks like a robot

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 30, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Read more about the article Day 25: Sheetmetal Everywhere

Day 25: Sheetmetal Everywhere

  • Post author:Spectrum 3847
  • Post published:January 29, 2014
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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