I barely have words to describe the team’s excitement after the Alamo Regional this past weekend… so I’ll use a picture. All of the hard work for this season, the late nights, the strategy deliberations, pushing to build two robots… all worth it. We achieved our season goal of finally qualifying for champs as the […]
Thursday, we continued to build prototypes, but we also wanted to start getting some more quantifiable data off of them. Additionally, we finished the spindle upgrade on the gantry mill, and began some work on vision targeting. Few positive notes, we got our shipment of game pieces in, so now we have more to test ball
Wednesday our goal was to extend our first round of prototypes, as well as start making a more legitimate intake (and not turn this one into a shooter). We like the idea of an over the top roller intake. It has been used successfully in many games, and we were happy with ours in 2016.
Tuesday was our first “official meeting” after kickoff. We started it off with a quick rules quiz by mentor John Griffith. Our students are awesome and read the rules thoroughly, so we knocked this out quickly. Pic 1 We took care of the requisite chores such as doing inventory on our kit of parts. Moving
Who said you can’t get a workout roboting! We decided we needed to haul half our workshop to Texas Instruments for kickoff, we got to spent a good portion of the day Monday hauling a trailer worth of robot supplies back to our shop. Many hands make for light work. We purchased/built a gantry mill
Unfortunately, we didn’t have a great place to meet at a team on Sunday, and we were a bit burned out from planning and hosting kickoff. Our team stayed in touch via the internets, and we all worked on reading the rules and asking a lot of questions. We are going to try to do
It’s finally come! #Stronghold has arrived and it looks like the anticipation was not in vain… it looks AWESOME! We were excited to help host the Dallas kickoff event with Texas Instrument’s support, and be able to hang out with 24 other awesome Dallas teams for the day. Peter Balyta, President of TI Ed. Tech
October 11th – 17th By now we had spent a fair amount of time thinking through the overall game strategy and we realized that we could benefit from going back and revisiting our initial thoughts and early assumptions. As our strategy continued to evolve we found ourselves giving some serious thought towards incorporating a pick-up
October 4th -10th In week 2, we began to make significant progress on the field construction as we knew being able to test our designs and ideas on the ‘real’ field would be crucial. We were also able to start some basic prototyping. Overall, the main goals that we set for ourselves for this competition
This year, the RoboChargers are excited to improve our skills through the BEST Robotics challenge. We’ll be competing at the Dallas BEST Hub event on November 7th. The challenge video is linked above, and the generic andgame specific rules are attached here for any curious readers. We weren’t able to make the kickoff event on