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Sorry for not having a post yesterday, we were hanging out with a few young teams at the Houston Bootcamp build day round 2.We were working on getting their electrical…

Here is the the video from our Butterfly drive test. This looks really good and is just a lot of fun to drive. If the omnidirectional drive doesn't work out…

We had an ice day today so no school. Many of the Houston overpasses were iced over this morning. This only happens every 2 or 3 years, but when it…

We finally have some good video of our launcher prototype. It's performing as we expected, with a wide range of potential shots, some of them we didn't even think about…

After the long weekend we got many of our orders from week two. We had a large amounts of screws, bolts, and nuts from McMaster-Carr and Bolt Depot. We received…

We were off from school for MLK so we had another long work day. We improved our pneumatic launcher to where it give a nice chest pass. We aren't trying…

We worked more on CADing up the game specific mechanism for our robot. Most of it is still in draft form but we're pretty happy with the direction it is…

 We put together as much of the chassis as we could. This one ways about 50lbs as shown here. The real one will be lighter as some of the main…

After the sheet metal came in today, we started construction on the practice robot. We set up a test version of our octocanum modules. The drive train will hopefully be…