So far, so good for us! Our robot has been function properly in the pit, but we are still having a slight connection problem. That did not slow us down though! We had planned stratigicly around connection loss so that we would have time to effectivly launch our minibot and score us enough points to win the last match. After all was said and done, we stayed for the awards ceremony where we were astonished to be presented with "The Rookie Allstar Award" and a bid to Nationals in St. Louis! Yay!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
COMPETITION DAY 3
After passing inspection, we headed out to the field to compete. After each round, we went back to the pits to do some tweaking. Little by little, we tweaked our robot until it was functioning perfectly in the pit. Our only issue was that, on the field, we started loosing connection. We fixed it by moving the radio towards the top of the robot. Fingers crossed for tomorrow!!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
COMPETITION DAY 2
After a long nights rest, we headed over to the pits and uncrated our robot and began testing. After everything checked out, we went to do some practice on the field.
So far, everything has gone really well!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
COMPETITION DAY 1
We packed up all our supplies into allocated bins and loaded them into the trucks and headed out to Orlando. After a long drive we finally made it to our hotel and got situated in our rooms. The team had one final meeting to go over our strategy. Now its time to catch some Z's to be ready for the big day in the morning.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
3-6-11 Practice!
Today we went over to Sugar Sand Park to get some practice in on operating the robot.
The room that we had the opportunity to practice in was very, very big!
We split up into teams of two so that we could figure out who was best suited to drive the robot.Overall we learned how difficult it was going to be to control the robot from the driving station because of the reversed controls whenthe robot faced us.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
3-5-11 finishing up
Today we worked on finishing the rear frame and fixing the forklift .
Here is our rear frame along with our mini-bot deployment and our compressor/storage arrangement.
Here's Andrew working on finishing up the electronics for our robot.
And here's our finished product for today! 3-4-11
Last night, we continued working on the second robot.
Nigel is seen here working on the pneumatics holding board/mini-bot deployment base.
Nick is measuring pieces to be cut that will be used to raise the mini-bot deployer 3" to utilize the maximum amount of space available for deployment.
Here, Nick is threading cables up the side of the forklift to attach to the claw.
We still have many tasks to complete in order to accomplish the main goal: get the second robot running.
Nigel is seen here working on the pneumatics holding board/mini-bot deployment base.
Nick is measuring pieces to be cut that will be used to raise the mini-bot deployer 3" to utilize the maximum amount of space available for deployment.
Here, Nick is threading cables up the side of the forklift to attach to the claw.We still have many tasks to complete in order to accomplish the main goal: get the second robot running.
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Our friends Children of the swamp :)
We are very gracious to have Children of the Swamp as our good friends.They have been very helpful to us from the start when they invited us to their workshop to get a sense of what we were getting ourselves into. They've also been very gracious in lending us their Lab View CD when we could got gain access to ours. They were great hosts for the practice event on Saturday February 19th. We're extremely thankful to team 179 for helping us when they donated their spare base kit and window motor. This allowed us to build a second robot because we didn't get enough driving practice with our main robot.
we robocats are thankful to team 179 Swampthing and wish them good luck at the competition.
we robocats are thankful to team 179 Swampthing and wish them good luck at the competition.