• Day 41

    Today we decided to tackle the controls discussion again. I started by drawing a diagram of the flow the driver takes through out the match. Then I added on additional options for the operator being in control of which position to shoot from. From there the team could pretty clearly see why not having the

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  • Day 40

    Assembly pain begins, the intake is progressing slowly, the climber is making some steps forwards and more steps backwards. The team assembling the intake discovered they placed the 1 x 1 supports on the bottom at the incorrect location about halfway through today. It was also discovered some of the shafts we made had been

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  • Day 39

    Today was tiring and frustrating. The day started off well, we retook the team pictures and did better this time, you know people looking at the camera and not making stupid hand signs. Simple stuff. The day went down hill after dinner. A Cad student and a manufacturing student set off on assembly of the

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  • Day 37

    Today was an optional meeting, allowing students some make up attendance if they need it. We only had 4 students show up today. We had two programmers and two manufacturing students. The two manufacturing students started finishing the remaining operations on the fixed tube of the climber. These parts didn’t fit in the Haas so

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  • Day 36

    Saturday’s always seem to start off slowly, we had around 12 students when the meeting “started”. The progress doesn’t stay slow tho, even though we were hosting another Vex competition we still managed to get around 23 students at the meeting. Manufacturing was the department with the most students today, which is good because we

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  • Day 34

    Today felt like the opposite of yesterday, progress was being made through out the entire meeting. At the start of the meeting I talked with the manufacturing student lead to set the priority for the rest of the meeting. The number one priority right now for manufacturing is finishing the parts required for the intake.

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  • Day 33

    Today was one of those days where it felt like nothing got done. But if I go look at Trello and the parts that came out it was a productive day after all. Its probably a bit in my head where I don’t get much done and that affects my judge of how much got

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  • Day 32

    Well its the start of week five, CAD is feeling the pressure, the whole team is waiting on them to finish up the robot. Honestly they aren’t too far behind on the robot. Its amazing considering its a team of 4 students and all are first year CAD students. CAD We managed to sneak in

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  • Day 29

    We hosted an FLL tournament today so attendance was a little bit light early in the morning as most of our students were helping out with that. After the tournament was up and running we swapped some people around and managed to get a good crew of students making progress. CAD The final few findings

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  • Day 26

    Well its official we are losing tomorrow to a snow day, and a good chunk of students didn’t show up to today’s meeting so we ran a bit light. I’m constantly surprised by how long a simple task seems to take us, I might need to re frame my expectations? Or analyze why tasks take

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