Canned Thoughts

CAD Today was a productive day. Work started on bumper mounting, and brain pan placement. A brain pan is where you have the belly pan of the robot on top of the 2×1 frame rails and the space underneath becomes where you put all of your electronics. Prototyping continued today, the intake prototype moved under

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Manufacturing Today students were busy finishing moving the field border to the widest point we can fit. We also had to move the carpet removing some overlap to ensure the field is fully carpeted. The terminal was finished today. Surface Plate work also mostly finished today. All of the holes were drilled for the grid

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We only meet Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, so Monday was an off day for everyone. Today was an not so fun day for the CAD department, we had a few steps backwards. More one that later. Progress is happening else! The manufacturing department is busy expanding the field. We are moving the side of

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Our first(maybe only?) Sunday meeting got off to a slow start at noon. We started the day by polling the group to see if we learned anything new over night, and need to reevaluate our strategy at all. Next we broke out into 4 groups and brain stormed different ways to accomplish the first five

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I’ve talked about our new laser cutter in the past and I have a fun update, on Thursday this past week we finally managed to fire it for the first time! We haven’t done enough testing to see what tolerances we can hold but so far its looking good! On To Kick Off! Our team

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One thing that I’ve been thinking about recently is how most teams are experiencing a massive rebuild year. Our team had 9 returning members, and 29 new members. At the start of the season we made a big push to recruit more members, and it worked. We have been busy running training to get our

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Build season is almost upon us, we’ve spent the past few weeks doing department based training. We’ve finally selected our student leaders(some what later than usual). Our big fall shopping order is finally complete(more on that later). There are two weeks of meetings left before winter break. So what have the departments been up to?

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This was the end of our second week after completing fall training. The students are all broken out into different departments and the team is starting to make progress. The shop is still a mess but we are working on fixing it!(One of the unmentioned problem of acquiring new tools, you have to find a

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Things are coming along again, schools are meeting in person again and we are able to start meeting in person again. Coming into the start of the school year we have 8 returning members, we have a ton of recruiting to bump this number up! We lead a multi-pronged approach to recruiting this year, we

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The first week started with a meeting for returning members, we talked about how we will be working this year with Covid. The second meeting of the week was a introductory meeting for new members. Were we talked about what Vex and FRC robotics is. We did our best to entice the attendees into joining

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