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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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Day 11: Design, Manufacturing & Prototyping Progress
Design Today was our 2011 Preliminary Design Review. We met as a whole team at the lab to discuss our game objectives and the direction we are going in with the robot. Everyone seems to approve of the design and we will move forward to finalize the design in the coming days. Manufacturing The…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 10: Prototyping, Manufacturing & Design Progress
Prototyping Today, a prototyping group met to finish the roller prototype that was almost complete yesterday. Round belt pulleys were fabricated and round belts were added so that one motor could be used to power both wheels simultaneously. The prototype was made mobile and we tested picking up…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 9: Rollers Prototyped, Wheels Complete & Preliminary Electronics Layout
Rollers Prototyped Today, our prototyping group finished putting together a jig for testing tube intake rollers. The prototype was very successful and successfully picks up and holds tubes. Furthermore, we were able to rotate tubes within its grasp by rotating the two rollers at different rates.…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Bellarmine VEX Regional
This past weekend, Bellarmine College Prep held its 3rd annual VEX Robotics regional. 51 teams from throughout the Bay Area flocked to Sobrato Theater to compete in the largest Northern California VEX Regional of all time. Thanks to Bellarmine’s generous funding, we were able to offer a…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 8: Design & Manufacturing Progress
Design Today, we worked on space claim analysis and tried to figure out how we could even fit a roller claw onto our elevator and still have room for a minibot while building a nice looking robot. Next, we started to analyze what our tube grabber could be shaped like. We knew that one of […]
2011 FRC Build Season
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VEX Tournament Setup & T-Shirts Arrived
Today, we setup for the Bellarmine VEX Robotics tournament which will be occurring tomorrow in the Sobrato Center at Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose. For the most part, the setup ran smoothly and we are very excited for tomorrow’s tournament. On a separate note, the 2010-2011 team t-shirts…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 7: Manufacturing Progress, No Build Meeting
Today, the FRC Build group did not meet at the lab. However, progress was still made in the manufacturing and materials procurements area. We were able to pick up the raw aluminum from Coast Aluminum in Hayward so that wheel construction can begin soon. Furthermore, Cory started setting up the…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 6: Prototyping, Programming, Design & Manufacturing Progress
Prototyping Today, we had a large group of students working to prototype mechanisms for subsystem 2 (tube grabber. One group was working to construct a jig for testing roller prototypes. The other group worked to think up alternate solutions for tube grabbing. Programming The programming team met…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 5: Design & Programming Progress
Design At the lab today, a number of students met to work on robot design. We spent the entire day working on Subsystem 1: Arm/Elevator. We began the day by reviewing our game objectives before proceeding to create a weighted objective table. Elevator 1 Joint Arm Scissor Lift Conveyor 2 Joint Arm…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 4: Field Construction, Whole Team Meeting
Field Construction The field construction team made huge progress today. A large group of students worked hard all day to complete both the minibot pole and one grid of scoring pegs. Whole-Team Meeting We had a whole-team meeting at the lab today. We discussed the progress thus far in the season…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 3: Field Construction, Programming, Design & Manufacturing
Field Construction The field construction team was hard at work today working on the two elements of the game field that we are building this week. We have constructed a shopping list and hope to buy the remaining materials tomorrow. Programming The programming team was working hard today on…
2011 FRC Build Season
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Day 2: Drivetrain Design & Manufacturing
Today, at the lab, a group of team members met to continue designing the robot drivetrain and continue manufacturing bearing blocks. Networking & Lab Improvements We started by networking all of the upstairs computers at the lab together. This will allow us to share printers before the computers. …
2011 FRC Build Season