Archive for February, 2007

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Code error?!?!? WHAT?

For the past few days, the RC (Robot Controller) has been crashing. I tried EVERYTHING to figure out what the error was; I even commented out the entire “Default_Routine()” function, but it still crashed. I finally resorted to pulling out all the “digital i/o” pwm cables, in a desperate attempt. I did not really expect […]

No Comments » - Posted in Build Season, Software by Amanda Canyon

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Time

It seems that time has flown by so fast that it’s insane. There is a very short amount of time we ship our robot away and head up that way ourselves. We have been making awesome progress and I am confident that we will be well prepared for the competition.
See you in Vegas.(I wonder if […]

No Comments » - Posted in Build Season by jjack

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Seven days left

wow it’s really comeing close I don’t really understand how time can fly this fast it feels like there should be at least twelve days left, But anyways as far as I can see the robot is comeing along great. Also it looks like we are gonna get this thing out right before the deadline so […]

No Comments » - Posted in Build Season by sadams

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

12 more days!

So as the end of build season draws near the robot is starting to come together. We have our cahsee, claw, and lift systems built. Soon everything will be put together and ready to go. I am currently designing our control board which will operate all the robot’s systems. The design should be done by […]

No Comments » - Posted in Build Season by Daniel

Monday, February 5th, 2007

15 Days Until Ship!!!

There are only 15 days until we have to wrap up our operations and ship off our beloved robot Daisy.  Parting with a robot on the day of Ship is much like saying goodbye to a loved one.  This robot has been the creation of our hard efforts over the last six weeks and it […]

No Comments » - Posted in Build Season by Cheyenne Manske

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

Oh My Chairman’s!

It is nearing the end of this journey we call build season here in FIRST, and I must say, things are ramping up towards Ship Day.  Since build season last year our team has been making efforts to improve our community outreach and to become more involved, and I think we have accomplished many goals.  […]

No Comments » - Posted in Build Season by Cheyenne Manske

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

title of champions

Just felt like adding a blog. So, I missed a couple days, I was busy with internship, work and tutoring. So we’re still working on the design for the arm. We’ve gone through a couple different prototypes, and a couple issues we ran into were things like, the weight of the claw was too much […]

No Comments » - Posted in Build Season by Jason