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…

Today the robot was mostly reserved for programming. But first we changed the ultra planetary gearboxes on the singulator to a lower reduction(I think 5:1, used to be 20:1). This has eliminated most dead zones(we only saw 1 in an hour of driving practice). The cargo starts in the previous dead zone and doesn’t get…

Today, a few students, before the meeting started swapped around the intake rollers, they put the stiffer wheels on the back bar. They also took this opportunity to flip the bearings and add more wheels. We are trying to eliminate a dead zone between one of our vertical rollers and the side of the intake.…

At the start of the meeting I took a little bit of time to clean up the mess of wires that the top four motors resulted in. It didn’t take long but I was able to make it look so much nicer. Then we added the lime light and wired it up. Next was a…

Today we did the team recap, and watched a few different videos, final matches from week zero, and 1690’s reveal video. The slides say week seven recap, we must have gained a week some where. The recap has a brief bit from each subgroup and some FRC trivia. We also opened suggestions to name the…

Bonus day! The students have no school today so we managed to sneak in a very productive extra meeting. We only had 6 students show up(not all at once either) but it was a very productive day. The students filtered in slowly, 9:00am is way too early of a start for most of them. Eventually…

Its starting to look like a robot! Lets just show the picture now and we can talk about all of the progress that was made today. The intake is assembled, the climbers are assembled and mounted and the vertical rollers for the CDS finished assembly but not mounted yet. The intake finished assembly today. We…