Authors: Dylan Curry, Kenny Nguyen Day Summary Today was the third day since Rapid React was announced and everyone was hard at work. The subteams divided into groups to figure out how we will conquer the great challenge that is ahead of us. For all of this week everyone will…
2022 Build Season Day 3 (1/10/2022)
Authors: Kenny Nguyen, Dylan Curry Prototypes Today talon members were successfully able to make a prototype climber that could hang and pull itself up into a parallel position as it would climb the bars. Although unfinished the design so far appears to work smoothly. The Climber Prototype 1 uses pistons…
2022 Build Season Kickoff (1/8/2022)
Authors: Dylan Curry, Rapid React Today on January 8th Talon robotics joined thousands of other teams on watching this years game reveal. We all gather together to have a pancake breakfast where we would wait for First to reveal this years game on twitch. As we watched on twitch we…
Bots For Tots
Authors: Kenny Nguyen, Dylan Curry Basic Overview On Monday the 11th, 2021. Talon Robotics hosted the Bots for Tots event at our local Eden Prairie Mall. This event was to work with the Eden Prairie police department to help fundraise and support the “Toys for Tots” program. We had children…
Minne Mini Offseason Event Recap
Authors: Dylan Curry, Pearl Jain General Overview Minne Mini is a regional event that takes place in the offseason of each year. Its goal is to prepare FRC teams in the region for the upcoming build season. Just like MRI we were able to compete with our practice and competitive…
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Day 12 – Fixes and Progress (2/11/2021)
Despite only being three hours, today was a very productive day. The drivetrain was finally fixed and progress was made on mounting the new intake onto the practice bot. Drivetrain As mentioned above, the drivetrain was fixed today! The issue we had encountered was due to the way the motor…
Day 11 – Meetings and Drivetrain Testing (2/09/2021)
Authors: Pearl Jain, Andrew Georgioff Today was mostly continuing to perform tests to determine the Drivetrain issue. Despite much of the day being meetings, we still managed to pinpoint the issue down to two possible causes. Drivetrain: We were experimenting with adjustments made on Saturday when we identified another issue…
Day 10 – Troubleshooting^2 (2/07/2021)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff Programming Much of today was spent on programming for the autonomous portion of the Infinite Recharge at Home competition, notably on the AutoNav challenge. Above: The first of three paths in the AutoNav challenge Drivetrain Aside from programming, the other focus today was on troubleshooting the drivetrain…
Day 9 – Testing and Troubleshooting (2/06/2021)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff Programming Most of the programming today was focused on fixing an issue. This issue (assumed to be with the encoders) was a problem with the distance tracking. The distance that the robot thought it moved (measured by the encoders recording the rotations of the motor) was extremely…