Hey everyone!
We had an amazing third week of build season! Despite losing a meeting due to the weather, we’ve been very productive throughout our various divisions!
The engineering team completed wiring our drive base and have been working on getting Swerve drive operational via code. We’ve continued construction on our elevator, finalizing the design we will be using. Additionally, we’ve begun construction of our bumpers. This year, foam tiles are allowed, so we decided to stray from our usual pool noodles to try out some new padding! We hope to finish constructing the bumpers within the next few meetings and then get to testing! We’re excited about the pace we’re working at this year, and hope to have the bot competition ready by unveiling, or very close!
Our business team finalized the sponsor side of our t-shirts and sent those to our crafts team for production. In addition, we made a big push to email local companies closer to our new location about sponsorship opportunities.
Since moving to this location, we have been slowly adding some personal touches here and there. A big addition was the logo we installed on the door to the engineering side, giving it a homey feeling! We’re looking forward to seeing what other decor we can add that will continue to make this location feel right at home.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading! We’ll have another update in the next week, see you soon!
Hey everyone!
The team has been hard at work these last two weeks. We spent some time creating a new cart to wheel our bot around this week, which we not only designed but were able to create a prototype. To comply with the field regulations, we made some design changes from our previous year’s cart, and it now measures 30 x 36 inches. This cut down the size by roughly 25% so on top of it being able to go out on the field, it should be lighter and easier to move around with and without the robot.
The engineering department has been hard at work developing a full elevator system with 80/20 extrusion and 3D-printed sliders. They created a couple of designs and are now prototyping each of them to see which design will synergize with the other planned features. In addition, we were able to create our base quickly with Swerve drive along with most of the electronics already placed in the design.
On the business end, our team created different designs for our team shirts and then voted. When the results came in, we decided to go with the top two designs that were created by Triston and Rebekah! Additionally we were able to secure 8 sponsors this year, 4 of them being new sponsors!
Thanks for tuning in, we’ll have another one real soon!