I know I know, the title is cliché but it’s been a hectic third week of build/work season and I’m running out of ideas ALREADY. I probably just need some sleep, but oH WeLL. In the shop, unfortunately, there is still only 25% building capacity following COVID precautions so there can only be about four people […]
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Just wanted to hop in to talk a little bit about how we’re structuring team management this year. With all of us being virtual(and me being 3000 miles away), it’s been quite a challenge to keep the team engaged and moving in the right direction. I’m extremely happy with some of the progress we’ve made
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HQ Update: We have still been moving at a slow yet steady pace for our progress and can only do so much with Governer Baker (MA) deciding to remain at 25% building capacity for mandates Game Design: 1/20/2021 – The Game Design Challenge team started with a discussion about potential implementations for our game piece,
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And we’re back, its been a little bit so here are some updates that we have about our projects after kickoff, which was last Saturday. During kickoff, we had a really nice zoom meeting with many members of the team along with some members from rookie team 8604; we played some games too such as
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Alright, long time no see, we’re back! Happy to say, thanks to Zoom, Slack, and Onshape… 2021, wow, who would have thought. Look at us now. Happy to say 6328 is going to be continuing this blog sharing with everyone the updates, progress, setbacks, and lessons we experience throughout the 2021 season! It’ll look a
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In addition to our shooter just about being completed we have made progress on assembly on our competition hopper and intake. Here are some pictures and videos of it. Hoping everything will be moving on it’s own very soon. We just had competition drivetrain sheet metal bent and powdered (huge thank to our friends at
Good progress lately. We were able to run some testing of all our shots to make sure we have the proper hood angle on the competition shooter. Below are some random videos from testing. Fender Trench Initiation line Also we’re finally driving! Probably should have ensured that, “hard mount the shooter” was crossed off the
Sorry for the lack of updates, it’s been crunch time lately and we’re feeling the pressure. Here’s an updated screen cap of our finalized CAD minus climber arms(still in development) and intake(which is being swapped for a fold down instead of a slide out to increase simplicity). Intake and Climber Arms should be done next
Been busy the last few nights just finishing up CAD work, building our the practice ‘bot drive train this Saturday and getting it running and finalizing the entire robot CAD (finallyyyyy). We wanted to take all our prototypes and see the entire ball path working together before hitting the go button on some metal so
Quick update today from our meetings over the weekend. Shooter Testing went well, will make more data this week once we put it all together. We settled on running two of the 60A Neoprene Fairline wheels(with safety wire). We were able to mock our prototype up to the proper height and figure out the correct
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