So today we had the practice field open up for us to scrim with other players, which is just us having a friendly battle without our weapons turned on. After a couple battles of my own I realized that my traction issue was going to be a big problem so…
So today would be the day that I finish assembly on my robot. I got the bearing and the screw that finishes the assembly with my weapon. After I finished assembling my bot it was all done. I then went over to the testing arena and started driving. My weapon…
Today we were building our robots, and it was relatively simple. They gave us a bunch of screws, and we had to make our bots only use this type of screw anyway, so it was all right. We got all of our parts, and then we started this assembly. We…
So today was the tournament that we had and my robot was pretty good. The tape fix was working well to stop or to fix the traction problems that I had. My first match was up against my friend with his robot called Bastion, which was an angled horizontal spinner.…
So today when we arrived we got right to work on cat. I only had a few things to touch up, including some of the screw hole sizes and I also had to add the forks on the front of the robot as well as adjust the sizing and the…
So today for combat camp when we arrived there, we got right to work cutting our own bots. The way it worked generally is we were sat down in groups of six and the instructors would be walking around, waiting for us to ask for help or just looking at…
So today for combat camp we quickly finished the example robot. After we finished it, we made a presentation on the robot that we were going to design for the camp. I made a presentation about why I want to make an eggbeater vertical spinner and my application was accepted…
So I will be attending an eight-day long camp to get you situated with combat robotics and how to CAD things, how to physically assemble them, and how to drive. The first week will be calibrating our robots and the second week will be assembling them and driving them.…