The best laid plans… We started into the year with great ambition and wild dreams of what we would quickly accomplish! Ehhh… reality. Certainly not a lost week by any means, but we ended up hitting a few snags and delays, immediately feeling “behind schedule” on things we had planned the prior week. FLL Tables […]
Category: FRC
Decided to take a month off of robots… was terrible, would not recommend. As we rolled back into September, the RoboChargers were excited to prepare for another solid season. The next few weeks will be spent getting the shop in order and working on some preparatory projects before recruiting new students and starting our BEST
The RoboChargers were excited to compete in the inaugural UIL state championship event down in Austin with 40 of the strongest teams in Texas. We were excited to be able to bring our largest crew ever to the event, as summer recruiting brought in new students, excited to learn about FRC. We started the trip
Whelp, that was unexpected… After being “this close” to our first blue banner at the Alamo Regional, Dallas Regional, and then Curie finals this season… we are pretty stoked for our first “light blue” banner courtesy of the entire crew that has turned Texas Robotics Invitational into the polished and widely attended event it is today.
Summer is in full swing! While we are looking forward to competing in TRI and TRR this summer, the slowed pace has allowed us time to focus on outreach in our area as well. Right before championships on April 21st, we were asked by our principal, Mr. Mays to visit Hill Middle School and show
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