WEEK 7WEEK 7Week 7 has come to an end, giving us about 3 weeks left until our first competition! Our team has been hard at work making sure everything is ready for the upcoming competitions and our yearly pancake breakfast. If you plan to come to the pancake breakfast please remember to fill out this rsvp by March 1st. WEEK 5WEEK 5We just wrapped up week 5 of our build season and are moving forward to week 6! Our team is starting to ramp up the pace as we begin finalizing our design and our subteams are continuing to make excellent progress in their respective areas. This week has been a busy one for our team. CAD has been hard at work finalizing the design and putting the finishing touches on components, while Build has been working on physically putting those designs together, putting focus on building the shooter and starting on the climb. Electrical has been busy sending out PCB’s and Time-of-Flight sensors to be printed and working on wiring the shooter. On the programming side, Software has been doing tests on our shooter prototype, working on configuring buttons, and doing overall code cleanup for our subsystems. Business and Marketing has been been continuing to send emails to sponsors, creating posts for the team, and planning the upcoming 4917 Pancake Breakfast WEEK 3WEEK 3This week was a challenging one for our students as we had our semester 1 exams. This means our students had to balance studying for their exams with their eagerness to come to robotics. Thankfully the team was still able to get lots done even with the stress of these exams. The electrical team has been hard at work, soldering distance sensors to be put on the robot. This was not an easy task as the sensors have many tiny parts that need to be soldered onto a board and the electrical team needed to make a lot of them. CAD is still finalizing the design of the robot and making some tweaks to the 3D model. Build on the other hand is taking the designs and starting to prototype the parts of the robot. They are running into all sorts of problems but they haven’t let themselves get discouraged. Instead they have overcome these challenges, making their robot better than ever! As you can see the team is still hard at work even with the added demand of exams. With this semester coming to an end the team is ready to work hard in semester 2. We can't wait! |
WEEK 6WEEK 6Week 6 is officially over! This means we are two thirds of the way through our build season and this season is flying by. As always the team was hard at work, but with the deadline being so close they worked extra hard to make sure we are competition ready. As we get later into the season our CAD team is starting to slow down as the design is essentially finished and there are only minor changes here and there. When CAD slows down, build speeds up! The designs submitted by CAD have been manufactured which means build can start to assemble the rest of the robot. With the chassis being complete electrical is able to start adding all of the electrical components to the base. Software has continued to make adjustments to code to make sure everything runs as smoothly as possible, they have also started working on an auto for competitions. Business and marketing reached out to multiple sponsors and have also continued to make posts on the Instagram about upcoming events. WEEK 4WEEK 4With exams done and semester two beginning, our team has returned to full speed in preparation for the competitions! Week four has been going well, with good progress on the robot being made by all subteams. At the rate that things are going at right now, we’re expected to have the robot fully built and wired by February 23rd. This gives our software subteam about a month to code and test the robot before our first competition. As mentioned before, each subteam has made significant progress. Our build subteam has finished building many key mechanisms. The software subteam worked on fixing some errors with the vision of the robot. Electrical and CAD have been working together this week to prepare the wiring layout for the competition robot, allowing them to immediately begin work as soon as it’s prepared. Finally, the business team has continued to post about our sponsors and take photos of our team in action. All of this wouldn’t be possible without the hard work and dedication of our students on the team, along with the integral advice the mentors give. WEEK 2WEEK 2Time has been flying! The first two weeks have come and gone, but we have to keep looking forward as week three begins. Week two has really been exciting, and a great learning experience for rookies; especially considering most of our veterans have been incredibly busy with exams. Our education is always priority number one! Despite many challenges we continue to grow, learn and bond as a team. Anyone who was in high school knows how high nerves run the week before exams and yet we were able to work together to build, create and brainstorm some of our best ideas yet. On more of a technical note our software team has done loads of work on our vision system and drivetrain while our CAD team has created designs for our shooter, feeder, intake and storage mechanism. We are so proud of everyone on our team, and have made monumental progress for just finishing our second week. WEEK 1WEEK 1The Build season has officially begun! The first week of every build season is always the most exciting as this is when our team finds out this year's game and gets to discuss some strategy. Kickoff took place on Saturday Jan 10th, at Woodland Christian Highschool. We met up with 9 other FRC teams participating in this year's game reveal. We had the opportunity to spend the first half of the day attending various seminars, sharing knowledge and learning something new to further succeed as a team. This year's game is called “Rebuilt”. The goal is to find, load, and shoot foam balls into a center ball drop. Strategy meetings and design sessions have continued to solidify our final deigns and we have also has started building our practice field! |
