WE'RE BACK!
Welcome everybody, today's Blog is going to be a tad bit different. Our team had unfortunately not been able to have our regularly scheduled meeting’s, due to the sudden snowstorm that happened during week 4. Many people lost their electricity and roads were dangerous. This had canceled both school and robotics, but after a week or so we got back to our Saturday meetings! As well as having FLL on the same day! ( spoiler, it was a success!) As for those in Austin or were facing the same issues, we hope you are safe and warm!
So, shall we begin?
After a week of no school due to the storm. Our team had both the Saturday meeting and FLL to host. First and foremost, our Saturday meeting! Of course, being that we were behind schedule, our whole team all got straight to finishing up objectives from week 3. Following that, every subgroup had gone to do their thing. So if you don’t mind, please let me tell you about what we did!
Business has been working on impact and woodies essays as technical writing. As well as a communal basket for our team! We also focused on FLL that very Saturday for outreach hours and volunteering. Following with ongoing tasks, such as photography and keeping up with social media and blogging! Our one & only host Gavin S. Will soon be publishing our very first episode of “Can We Talk?” Very soon! (Probably already out by the time you read this, so go check it out on YouTube if you haven’t!) We are currently still working on finding Sponsors as well as getting T-shirt quotes. That’s about it for Business, stay tuned for more!
Now, CAD; they have been working on finishing up version one of the robot! ( that's so exciting, isn’t it?) They also have an intake and arm as well as the Choo Choo gearbox assembled! They have also been continuing with prototyping and are focusing on floor intake! Following by prototyping and designing the buddy balance.
Manufacturing, on the other hand, has roughly completed half of the necessary parts to complete the charging station. The subgroup has also been working on 3d printing parts for prototyping and has made parts on the HAAS mill. Manufacturing has also begun to assemble the charging station and are about 10% done with it.
Finally, let's chat about programming. They have released the second stable for the practice swerve drive. They’ve been working on things such as the arm & LED subsystem. Programming has also begun writing code to automatically balance the robot on the charge station.
Now that we talked about what our team did, let's talk about FLL. So if you don’t know what FLL is, don’t fret! We shall explain. FLL is an abbreviation for “First Lego League”. Robotics for Elementary students! There were so many teams, and it was so fun seeing everyone being in a great mood both competing as well as to those who were volunteering. This also focused on being a part of an outreach for those part of our team! To say the least, FLL was a success and a great way to start robotics after the storm.
With this, our recap blog is over… this was such a chaotic week, and although we couldn’t be in ATC without the whole team working to get things done. We ended the week strong. We just couldn't wait to go back to our regular routine and see each other’s faces! We would love to chat more with you, but we have to go for now! Don’t miss us for too long… we will be back, so you gotta wait. See ya next time with ….
The ausTIN CANs!
