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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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Day 34: Manufacturing, Programming & Bumper Assembly
Manufacturing Today, the manufacturing department was hard at work finishing most of the parts for the bumpers and working on the shifter dogs and minibot deployment rail end caps. We hope to have every machined part done by Monday. Programming The programming team has been busy over the last few…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 33: Manufacturing
Today, we continued to work on manufacturing many of the primary parts for the robot. The dog gears were started and are coming along great. Furthermore, the bumper corner pieces are completed leaving the bumper pins as the only pieces remaining to be able to finish the bumpers.
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 32: Manufacturing
While we are waiting for parts to return from the andoize shop, we have been doing a ton of manufacturing. Today, we finished lightening all of the robot’s gears and finished milling bumper wood. Furthermore, we cut the steel bumper pin mount pieces and worked on shafts and spacers on the lathe.
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 31: Wiring & Manufacturing
Wiring Today, we continued wiring the robots. The competition robot is coming along nicely and is nearing completion. It should be completed in the next few days as soon as our remaining orders come in. Manufacturing Today, the CNC team was lightening gears and cutting dog teeth into the shifter…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Days 29 & 30: Wiring Weekend
First of all, I apologize for not putting a post up last night. I got home late and forgot to grab pictures off the camera before leaving and thought that a blog post without pictures might be a bit boring. Anyway, today was our big weekend of wiring the robot. After countless man-hours of work…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 28: We Have Robots!
Today, we got parts back from both the anodize and powder coat shops and began assembling and wiring the frames. Our sponsors are the best, allowing us to get frames powder coated in 1.5 days so that we can catch up on our schedule.
2011 FRC Build Season
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Animation Status
Currently we have finished all the scenes of the VEX animation besides the last one of the gameplay. We will render the 3rd through 5th scenes of the animation tonight and have them all posted to the Dropbox in the morning. The gameplay scene is being finished by Johnathan Chang as I am typing and…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 27: Prototyping, Manufacturing & Design
Prototyping Today, the prototyping group worked on their minibot design. The minibot is coming together. However, we have hit a setback in that one of our motors has burned out and we need a replacement. Manufacturing The manufacturing team was hard at work today machining a number of plates and…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 26: It’s Beginning to Look like Robots
Manufacturing Today, we received all of our parts back from the welding sponsors. All of the welds look great and beautiful and we were able to begin assembling parts. The frames are being brought to the powder coating sponsor early in the morning and will be powdercoated soon. In other news…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 25: Manufacturing, Prototyping, Whole-Team Meeting
Manufacturing Manufacturing is really in full swing in N246. We are churning out new parts every hour and the horizontal bandsaw hardly stopped cutting stock today. We should have a productive week ahead. Prototyping The minibot prototyping group continued to prototype their minibot design using…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 24: Manufacturing, Prototyping & Programming
Manufacturing The manufacturing team was hard at work today on the mill, lathe and CNC mill. We made countless shafts and spacers, several major CNC’d parts that need to be powdercoated and worked on endcaps and the elevator second stage side rails on the manual mill. Design & Prototyping The…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 23: Day Off
Today was our second day off of the season. We’re trying to take Sundays off so that team members have time to get all their homework done and just take a break from robotics. Although there was no regular meeting at the lab, our sister team 1868 was meeting, so the mentors were still in […]
2011 FRC Build Season