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Special thank you to our Sponsors.

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.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

pictures from 2-5-11


We have discovered the wonders of a POE cable; however, we have to "modify" the cable to make it work.
If you have any questions about how you can post a comment and we shall answer back quickly.

We have decided to use a POE setup for our camera. Here we see team member Nick attempting to wire it up without electrocuting himself.
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Progress Update Feb. 5, 2011

Hey! Time for my next update. This post will be devoted only to programming.

    So, as you know from our last post, we have connected our robot to our computer in AP mode, still haven't fixed Bridge mode. We have been using the standard remote control template for the videos but are currently working on a custom control system with Java. So far we have made considerable progress, having connected the video camera with a POE setup. if you have any questions about POE E-Mail one of us and we will get back to you as fast as we can. We have also been able to hook up an impressive array of pneumatics and are currently in the midst of programming them.

Keep checking back for more updates from the Boca High Robocats!
If you have any questions make sure to post them or E-Mail us and we will answer what we can
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The Story So Far

       Hey, thanks for checking out our blog. This is our rookie year so we had no idea what we are getting into, we talked to several veteran teams and they all suggested we build the base from the starter kit. We decided to take their advice, heres the result not bad! We have connected the robot to our computer through AP mode but Bridge mode is giving us trouble, any suggestions would be great! Since then we have mocked up several prototypes for our arm and have moved on to the final version (click here to check it out) sorry for the lighting issue, we have to have some secrets! :D We have also started working on our Pneumatics system (see it move!)
Thanks so much for checking out our blog, hope you check back often for more updates on the adventures of the Boca High Robocats!
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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.