WELCOME BACK!
Greetings, everyone! Today I’ll be talking about the endeavors of the robotics team throughout the second week after kickoff.
First up: Business. Business has been active the second week, searching for new sponsors, looking for outreach events to enlarge our robotics team, creating and adjusting merchandise, and, of course, making posts about our events throughout the week. Business members Victoria and Princess have been hard at work creating the Chairman’s Essay, an essay designed to encourage the higher-ups of FRC to endow us with the highest award a team can garner. Meanwhile, I’ve worked on making relevant social media posts to keep the families of FRC students updated, and making blog posts to supply them a rundown of what we’re doing.
On larger news, Manufacturing has almost completely finished the design for the court in which the game will take place in! The hub is extremely close to completion, and other crucial parts of the design for the arena are either completed or near completion. Soon, the team will move on to the actual parts of the robot, and before you know it we’ll have a fully functioning robot capable of accomplishing all of the tasks in the game.
In the meantime, CAD works tirelessly to create more functional prototypes. They’ve designed working concepts for the shooter and intake, and the climber is next. Overall, the CAD team aims to create functional essentials before progressing into climber mechanisms.
Last but not least, Programming. They’ve been hard at work, testing their code alongside our prototypes. They’ve been currently working on the ball intake and the CDS, or Cargo Delivery Service, that transfers the ball from the intake to the shooter. Speaking of the shooter, all tests have been successful with controls, and the drivebase has proven successful in pathfinding for the autonomous section of the game.
With that, I shall leave you. To be continued on…
THE AUSTIN CANS!
