Boca High FRC: 02/17/11

A Big Thank You to our Generous Sponsors!

Thank you JCPenny for the grant money that helped us pay for the machining and the resources that comprised the robot. Without your generous aid, our team would not have been able to afford the cost of robot building materials.
Thank you Tyco for machining all of the unique parts for our robot. With your help, our robot can function wonderfully and easily as it does today.
Thank you FAU for allowing us to use your engineering building as a workshop to work on and test our robot. This generous donation provided us with an environment suited for building, programming, and testing our robot.
Thank you sponsors JCPenny, Tyco, and FAU for your constant benevolence throughout our rookie FRC season. Your support has been instrumental to developing our great team.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

2-17-11 GYRO ROBO!!

Today we decided to lighten up our robot so that we could reach weight regulations. We accomplished this by removing the two front and rear wheels.

Yup thats right, we drive with only two wheels!

You're probably asking yourself "how?" or "why?"

Well, let me stop your thought process by saying that this robot balances by pure awesomeness!

It only looks like casters but its actually all an illusion! :D Just kidding... We used casters to improve mobility and decrease weight. We killed two birds with one stone and still remain to look totally awesome!

On another note, we switched our wood mini bot deployment mechanism to a metal deployment system so that it could take more of a beating.

Pictures from 2-17-11

Some of the team members became spectators at the drivers station as the code was being generated to successfully drive the robot.

With the help of one of our mentors, the programming had made a lot of progress! We tried out the new program with some success. Mission accomplished!

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.