Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Build Season 4th Week
Well, here I am, 4th week of build system, and I have been building every chance I get (although, I do have to do my internship and a physics class, so I don’t get to as much as I have). We’ve been working on the Transmissions and Chassis, and then the mast is working […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Build Season by Dan
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Reach Out: Outreach
One of the coolest ways to get in contact with your community is through outreach. This season may prove to be the most successful for The Holy Cows in aspects of community outreach. The fact is that The Holy Cows are not just a group of people, we are a team and we love our […]
No Comments » - Posted in Build Season by Cheyenne Manske
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
War in the what now?
WoW. After intersession all forms of communication kinda broke down and much our our intersseion group is left going “wtf mate?”. I have been trying to keep in touch but this year is going to be busy for me. I got school, college classes, work at Pickup Stix, and then this. In other news, with […]
No Comments » - Posted in Build Season by jjack
Monday, January 22nd, 2007
The FIRST part of the season
It’s been a couple days/weeks since I lasted posted and figured I should probably post again. Well we’ve, the build team, mainly been continuing our prototyping all sorts of random parts, atleast seemingly random parts. For the most part they they’re coming along just fine, and with only a couple issues. For example over the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Build Season by Greg
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Complications Arrise in the Bot-Mechanics
Well, it has been a little while since I have posted, but that is only because I have been hard at work, engaging with my build team and our mentors, heavily discussing the designs and flaws with designs for our robot to come–the dear and sweet “Daisy”. We, the build team [and David], have built, […]
No Comments » - Posted in Build Season, Mechanical Design by BParker
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da!!
Wow…we are only in to the second(?) week of build season and everything is already going crazy! I am (as well as other members are) learning how hectic FIRST can be. But the fun is in the challenge, right?
I am super excited to see how the pregression of our design goes and the improvement of our […]
No Comments » - Posted in Build Season by Cheyenne Manske
Friday, January 12th, 2007
Is that a…. a green light?
Today I began experimenting with the CMUcam in hopes that I could get it tracking the green light which will be positioned above the rack. With the help of one of our mentors, Neil, I was able to get this camera tracking the camera wonderfully!
From that point, I took the code written for our 2006 […]
No Comments » - Posted in Build Season, Software by Amanda Canyon
Friday, January 12th, 2007
1 week gone
Week 1 of build season is almost over, and with it the end of intersession. Today we were successful in prototyping a working manipulator. It was a good end to intersession, and a good start for the build season.
No Comments » - Posted in Build Season by Patrick
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Queen of Programs and Electronics [Proclaimed by the Princess of Public Relations]
Hi! My name is Amanda Canyon and I am the Director of Programming & Electrical. In our FIRST Robotics team, there are a lot of tasks which need to be done that involve the programming or electrical skills of the uber talented electronics team. My job is to manage this group and lead the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Build Season by Amanda Canyon
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Nice To Meet You, Secretary of Commerce
Today I had the privilege of meeting Carlos M. Gutierrez, the Secretary of Commerce for the United States. Besides being a humbling experience, I couldn’t believe I was talking to the very man that spoke at Nationals last year.
Mr. Gutierrez took a tour of our school and came to talk to us. He watched a […]
