Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Introduction Today, our Falcon 500s came in the mail today! We were going to test it, but were unable to due to the state of Sgt. Sammy. Also, here’s a funny story. Today, we were trying to get the Spark MAX’s to drive the NEO’s…
Day 4 – Moving the Ball (1/7/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff, Ravisha Jaiswal Introduction Today was Justin’s birthday. If you don’t know who he is, he’s our junior engineering captain. Happy birthday Justin 🙂 Turn Table V2 Last night, a new design for the turn table was made using the lessons we learned yesterday. There are…
Day 3 – More Prototyping! (1/6/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff, Pearl Jain, Serena Jain Introduction Are you making a prototype? Please post updates and pics in the #blog Slack channel of what you’re working so we can make the blog more accurate! Winners read the rules. Are you a winner? Tunnels To use the power…
Day 2 – Prototyping (1/5/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff, Ryan Alexander Intake Prototypes: Linear, Rotary, Fourbar In order to shoot the ball and score points, the robot must first pick it up. Several intake prototypes have been started today, specifically the rotary OBA (over-the-bumper active intake) and the linear OBA. There is a team…
Day 1 – Kickoff! (1/4/2020)
Authors: Danny Georgioff, Ritik Mishra The 2020 game was released today. Watch the game reveal and read the manual to more fully understand what Infinite Recharge is all about (long story short: its Rebound Rumble 2: Electric Boogaloo. Everyone should read the game manual to get an understanding of the…
Day 40 (2/14/18)
Authors – Ritik Mishra, Grant Silewski Introduction We got a lot of work done on both robots this weekend! We added limit switches to our practice robot, hooked up some more encoders, and fixed small issues all around that needed to be addressed. We also made considerable progress on our…
Day 31 (2/5/2018)
Authors – Grant Silewski, Ritik Mishra Introduction We have almost finished the practice robot! This weekend we pretty much worked on everything and got it to work. We even got our robot to drive around! More specifically, we adding chain to the drivetrain, finished putting together the butterfly, added the…
Day 28 (2/2/2018)
Authors – Andrew Gazelka, Ritik Mishra, Grant Silewski Introduction After a few weeks, we finally got most of the parts back from CEM, or rather enough for us to almost completely finish a practice robot, and make many of the subsystems for the competition robot. CEM is an amazing sponsor, and…
Day 11 (1/16/2018)
Introduction The team voted on prototypes today. The engineering leads will discuss this decision later this week. That decision will most likely be on Thursday. The team decided on the following: For the active intake, we wanted an elevator integrated active intake. For lifting, we decided that we should…
Day 10 (1/15/2018)
Introduction Today a lot of finishing up prototypes was done. On Tuesday at the team meeting we will vote on the best prototypes, so all prototypes have to be done before the meeting if you want them to be considered. After the prototypes are voted for, then we will start…