Tomorrow is the open house so that means today was spent cleaning and preparing for the open house. Everyone besides a few programming students were working towards preparing for the open house. The field layout tape got finished. Programming is working on autonomous and fixing the I2C problems we have been having. The practice bot…

We are hosting our open house this week. Its the first open house we’ve hosted in a long time, at least since I’ve joined the team. I’m excited and a bit nervous. The game plan is a quick introduction to FIRST, an explanation about the game. Then a semi dramatic reveal of the robot. To…

It time to start seeing double! We managed to get the second robot fully assembled today, wired up and running with some code! It looks like two robots but its really some where around 1.5 – 1.7 robots. The second robot is missing the entire climb. It might get the honor of testing our the…

The majority of the poly carbonate was cut on Friday, so the day started off good. The CDS and Intake assembly began. The intake is almost finished, the hard stops need to be added and it will be done. The CDS vertical rollers got assembled completely and mounted to the second robot. The rest of…

We have so much stuff we want to get done. There is also very little time before it all needs to be done. That seems to always be the problem in FRC. We have an open house next week on Thursday, so we are trying to get the second robot ready for that. That’s not…

We are still waiting for a ton of our plates to get cut on the router. Our manufacturing mentor has been swamped with other stuff. Its clear at this point we need to train up a few other mentors to be able to take over on the router and help out if needed during the…

15 Days and 20 hours remaining before our first event, we are all feeling the pressure. Today felt unproductive, but I think it was alright. Before the meeting started I had two students make a stealth fix to the robot. We swapped the pullies and belts around. Now there is only one belt on each…