October 11th – 17th By now we had spent a fair amount of time thinking through the overall game strategy and we realized that we could benefit from going back and revisiting our initial thoughts and early assumptions. As our strategy continued to evolve we found ourselves giving some serious thought towards incorporating a pick-up […]
October 4th -10th In week 2, we began to make significant progress on the field construction as we knew being able to test our designs and ideas on the ‘real’ field would be crucial. We were also able to start some basic prototyping. Overall, the main goals that we set for ourselves for this competition
This year, the RoboChargers are excited to improve our skills through the BEST Robotics challenge. We’ll be competing at the Dallas BEST Hub event on November 7th. The challenge video is linked above, and the generic andgame specific rules are attached here for any curious readers. We weren’t able to make the kickoff event on
5 days 7 hours . . . . 4 days 7 hours . . . . 3 days 7 hours . . . . A countdown to the end of build season was written in LARGE letters on the white board every day we walked in to keep everyone focused on how precious little time
We entered week 6 behind schedule and had no option but to hit the ground running and bring all hands on deck. Just as the week before, the decision was made to come in every day of the week to ensure we could complete our awesome robot! However – being dedicated and focused doesn’t mean
The clock is ticking and we can all feel February 18th creeping closer and closer. There were a lot of things still to be done and not much time left to do them. The goal set out for the week was to get the competition bot driving and begin driver training and shooter practice. To
Week four began with a team meeting where we discussed some of the non-robot-building aspect of our season, including assisting students with scholarship applications and mentoring with any courses they may need. Before diving back into the work space the team held a students-only meeting to discuss which mentor they wanted to nominate for the Woody Flowers Finalist Award. After
Another week gone – another week closer to bag and tag day. So much work left, so precious little time. So let’s get right to it: One of Tuesday’s projects was re-cutting an old set of bumpers to fit our newly-built kit bot. Since we used the square-kit chassis specs that the awesome folks over at FRC3847 published for the kit
