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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
I joined the team.
This is pretty cool. Admin on day 1 after I have joined the infamous Holy Cows (god must love us). Blog, I write about my day. We have a nice 100 pound robot in the makings. There are muffins on sale ($1 a piece). Exciting.
I had to drop soccer to join this club, but all […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Progress so far…
In the electronics department we still need to do a lot of research so we can know how to hook up the robot and hopefully make it work. if all goes well we will have a fully functional robot in a short amount of time.
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Gloom and… not much else
Not much to say but, I’m in a bad mood. My laptop was sent in to Sony for repairs, and they didn’t fix it. Soo much for extended warranty. In other news, yesterday afternoon, we got a visit from our rookie team that we are mentoring from San Diego High School, team 2032. The team […]
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Progress so far…
In robotics class we have been making steady progress so far. We have been assembling small parts that will eventually come together to make a robot that will function and do the tasks that we tell it to. So far in the elctronics department we have only built the camera and put together the battery connections. So we have a lot of […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Building a small game frame
Today we put together one of the sides of the game board thinger. We used one of the frames and put triangles made of 2×4 on the back to make it stand up. We had the PVC pipes already chained together so w just needed to put some plywood on the spine so that we […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Rack N’ Roll
There was much heated debate over proper tube handling techniques yesterday. It came up as we were dismantling the rack yesterday and members of the build team started experimenting with the ringers and the spiders. After almost half a day of intense discussion we finally got to agree that we want the robot to be […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. -George Washington Carver
Going to robotics class instead of a regular class sure is uncommon and today we continue to brainstorm and plan for our robot. Plus, I still cannot wait for competition. I have never participated one but i can feel it coming. Well its to early to talk about that but i hope we can gain […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Splendid day
Today is going to be a splendid day because we are going to build a miniature model of the spider rack. Then later on in the day our group will continue working on creating a prototype models. The goal for today is to complete as much as possible with the prototype model to get an […]
