Day Summary Today was the third day of the FIRST world championship. It was another day of qualification matches. Once again, the drive team headed to the venue earlier than the rest of the team. The day started with match 65 and Talon was playing in match 67 so we…
2022 Build Season Day 10 (1/17/2022)
Authors: Devh, Pearl Adjustable Hood The adjustable hood rotates the limelight 360 degrees so that it has a better view of the hoops on the field. Using a NEO, it lets the gears spin. The smaller gear is the one attached to the NEO. The programming team tried to make…
2022 Build Season Day 2 (1/9/2022)
Authors: Aedin Yu, Michael Proper Intake Prototypes: One of our strategies this year is to avoid the human player feeder station and pick up balls on the ground instead. In order to do this, we plan to create an active intake that will go over the bumper. With fresh ideas…
MRI Offseason Event Recap
Authors: Adhiraiyan Kartheesan, Pearl Jain General Overview MRI, which stands for Minnesota Regional Invitation, was our second offseason event this year. We want to get as much experience since most of our team graduated within the last two years, and we haven’t had many chances to give our newer team…
Open Room October 2nd
Authors: Adhiraiyan Kartheesan, Pearl Jain T-shirt Cannon The EPHS Homecoming game is coming up, which means that we’re going to be on the field shooting t-shirts into the crowd. Today, our first priority was making sure that our T-shirt cannon was operational. It uses air compressed to 80 psi, so…
Talon Robotics September Update : EMCC (9/18/2021)
Authors: Adhiraiyan Kartheesan, Pearl Jain General Overview EMCC was a fun, relaxed event where teams in the metro area met up to work on their robots, play practice matches, and learn more about other teams. The format was very open; there weren’t any scheduled matches, nor any official scores or…
Talon Robotics March Update
Authors: Pearl Jain, Andrew Georgioff Infinite Recharge at Home Submissions Much of our team focus lately has been on preparing for the first major deadline, which was March 4. This was the deadline for the written submissions for Infinite Recharge at home, Game design, and the Innovation Challenge. Despite it…