Hoco Game and T-shirt Cannon On Friday the 30th Talon was invited to shoot our own T-shirt cannon at our homecoming game. Talon quickly assembled a few volunteers and everyone started to fold t-shirts to shoot at the game. When the day of the game arrived, the team grabbed the…
EMCC 2022
Event Summary Being one the first off-season events in our area, the team was super excited to sign up for the EMCC. EMCC is a great event to let newer members try out driving and operating our robot in a competitive setting. Throughout the day everyone was able to try…
2022 Build Season Day 59 (4/28/2022)
Authors: Sujeeth T, Dylan C Open-Room Updates Today was a great day for Talon. The team was able to work on the robot and test out multiple features. However, we found a small problem with the robot when we were testing PIDs. The Fabrication team found a problem with the…
FIRST World Championship Day 3
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 57 (4/17/2022)
Authors” Yash D, Dylan C Open-Room Updates Today was the last day for Talon to practice with its robot. Even with the major holiday some team members were able to sneak away, and get some much needed work in. below is an summary of everything the team did: The team was…
2022 Build Season Day 56 (4/16/2022)
Authors: Yash D, Dylan C Open-Room Updates Today was the last Saturday before the world championship in Houston. Today was all about fine tuning our robot. The team mostly worked on fixing our autonomous code, and finetuning our intake.The entire open-room was a great time for the team to get…
Minnesota’s 10,000 Lakes Regional Day 1 (4/7/2022)
Day summary Beginning Of The Day Today was the first day of Minnesota’s 10,000 Lakes Regional tournament. With the first day full of practice matches Talon was able to get a lot of needed testing in. Below there is a summary of the entire day: With most of the team…
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…
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 4 – Disassembly (1/21/2021)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Pearl Jain Today was a quieter day, with a smaller amount of people than other open room times. Due to this, plus being unable to set up the field, we decided to focus on disassembling unnecessary mechanisms and programming. Raspberry Pi The programming team has been…