Canned Thoughts

The CAD students worked out the remaining questions on the traversal climber today. So far we have one or two outstanding items. We have managed to get the first version of parts out to manufacturing and we are working on solving the last remaining problems with a different hook setup. Our traversal climb is inspired

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Today was our team debrief from the Austin District Event. We sat the team down and talked as group about things that went well and things that didn’t go well. The list got a very messy, we’ll add that under the bad category and do a bit better next time. I also might suggest we

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Load In The team arrived at load in around 4pm, the weather had a small chance of rain, but thankfully it didn’t. The trailer was unloaded pretty quickly when we hit a small snag, we lost all the bolts for a wheel on one of our tool boxes. The bolts had backed out in the

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I don’t even remember what day it is at this point, we’ve been in the lab every day for the past week. Looking at the calendar tells me we have one more meeting before we load in at Austin. In the mean time the 3D printers are printing spares, the router will soon be cutting

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Its a Sunday today and the start of spring break was on Friday so attendance is doubly light. We had a few students in working on code, the competition branch is getting more usable. Issues were put up to fix incorrect current limiting on the drive base, incorrect setting open loop ramp rate on all

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Today we used the morning and a bit of afternoon to perform a few upgrades on the competition bot. The CDS base plate got notches cut into it so we can put the bumper pins on the front in. The sponsor panel/shooter support rod was mounted to the robot. We put the intake wheel spacers

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Today was our first open house in years. We started the day off with some last minute preparations so the open house would run smoothly. The pit carts were moved to the foyer, robots were set out on display. The competition robot was moved to the gym. We had a PA system, projector, a little

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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

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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

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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

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