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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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FRC Day 32 Build Blog
Day 32: Continued Assembly and Programming Gear Grabber Today, we worked on designing and testing the roller gear grabber. We installed a prototype onto the programming robot, and it worked somewhat well. When we drove into a gear directly, it was always ours, but it was narrow and difficult to…
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FRC Day 31 Build Blog
Day 31: Continued Assembly and Programming Hopper On Monday, we worked on making the hopper more rigid as well as tackling other issues with it, including breach of size constraints and inability to actuate field hopper. We brainstormed and tested off of current practice-bot hopper with small team…
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FRC Day 29 & 30 Build Blog
Day 29 & 30: Getting Ready for Competition Season Assembly Hopper/Hopper Floor Today, we worked on solving the funneling speed issue by placing a set of 4 rollers at the end of the hopper floor and above the wedges to provide a force pushing the ball forwards. This worked extremely well as our…
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FRC Day 28 Build Blog
Day 28: Bag and Tag Day Robot Progress General Assembly Today, we started by receiving news that after visiting 3 anodizing places, we could get parts for our hopper and hanger anodized for the competition robot. After calling, we knew that we would receive parts by 4, so we had to get everything…
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FRC Day 26 & 27 Build Blog
Day 26 and 27: Continued Assembly and Programming Assembly Hopper Today, we made sizable progress on the hopper. We made an initial prototype which we iterated upon to account for unforeseen difficulties. After getting it to deploy efficiently, we were able to store a max ball capacity of 140…
2017 FRC Build Season
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FRC Day 24 & 25 Build Blog
Day 24 and 25: Continued Assembly and Programming Assembly General Assembly We have almost completed wiring on the practice robot. We are waiting on a few competition subsystems to be assembled then we will be moving on to pneumatics. Last night, we had the robot shooting a few balls. Once we…
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FRC Day 23 Build Blog
Day 23: Continued Assembly Hopper Progress Robot Progress Almost all our parts are back from anodizing and we are trying to rapidly assemble as much of the robot as possible. The team working on putting surgical tubing over the rollers is almost finished and just needs to trim the excess off of…
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FRC Day 22 Build Blog
Day 22: Finishing Up The Field Robot Progress Today was a productive manufacturing and assembly day even though we didn't have our anodized parts back. We took off the superstructure today to make holes to run wiring from the shooter and feeder motors and encoders from the top of the superstructure…
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FRC Day 20 & 21 Build Blog
Day 20 & 21: Field and Robot Construction Robot We are focusing heavily on manufacturing to make sure all the parts for the robot are ready; we sent several parts to anodize this morning. We also have a shooter and intake assembled and hope to finish the feeder chute assembled in the next two…
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FRC Day 19 Build Blog
Day 19: Prototyping, Drivebase, and Programming Prototyping Shooter The shooter design is almost done. We are moving forward with 20 degree trajectory and tangent hood section out to 45 degree, to match the prototype. It should be ready to make this weekend. The chute design is coming along. We…
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FRC Day 18 Build Blog
Day 18: Hopper Progress Prototyping Hopper / Feeder Today we continued work on the hopper/feeder prototype. We went through a few more iterations revolving around the central design of a powered floor of rollers, but nothing seemed to stand out as notably better than what we started with. We tried…
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FRC Day 17 Build Blog
Day 17: Prototyping, Drivebase, CAD Prototyping Zipper Hopper Today was essentially our drop dead date for finalizing 90% of the hopper in CAD. We took our roller design and decided to ship it, with a center to center distance of less than 50mm, as the 55mm on the prototype was too much. While the…
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