Team 1538 (The Holy Cows)

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, so far, an acuating claw and part of our lift, which will [hopefully] reach most of the spider legs on the octagon for the field. Our complications, not so much with the claw, but with the lift consist of weight possibilities, how to motor it and how heavy the chain and sprockets will be, as well as with the overall lifting capabilities of it. Right now it slides fairly easily and with a little more tweaking I’m sure we can get it to near perfection, or at least what our standards perceive perfection as. We are steadily on our way to completing the main aspect of these designs and with a bit more prototyping in our future we should have it finalized soon and start the overall contruction of “Daisy”. This, is what I am eagerly awaiting to begin, as are several other people on the team, especially David. It’s all hard work but when you win either a match, a regional or very often both, the excitement and feeling of pure accomplishment is overwhelming and completely worth all the agonizing hours. It definitely beats any other feeling out there.

Dirrector of Mechanical Build and Design,

Brittany Parker

Greetings! My name is Tyrone Lee, posting under the alias of the infamous Leeroy Jenkins. I am a Chinese 17yr old senior with a penchant about engineering in all its myriad disciplines. I would describe myself as a gamer, recovering DotA addict, current WoW addict, a worshiper of Confucius, Jesus, and Will Wright, proud owner of 25 registered Sony products, and a bright hard-working individual. In addition, I do a great William Hung impression. As far as the FIRST team 1538 is concerned, I am member of the mechanical build team with some undetermined involvement with the electronics and programming team. The pre-build season so far has been one of mostly loose planning and way too much free time. But I believe that we are all twitching in anticipation of the 2007 season Kickoff and the challenges that await us. Until then, I’ll be waiting… for my laptop to get back from the shop. 

Hello all. My name is Brittany Parker and for those of you who do not know me I am the Dirrector of Mechanical Design and Build for our robotics team, The Holy Cows. I am strongly looking forward to this season mainly because I finally have a lead role in the team. I love being able to think that I can really make a difference in this team. As mentioned, I am dirrecting the build part of this team and am lucky to have a couple of really great members dedicated and interested in building as much as I am. Hopefully, our team will be able to accomplish the great task of making a robot for the game to come. It is officially announced in two days and along with everyone else, I cannot wait.

One of the main issues that I, along with my other fellow dirrectors, will be trying to push this year, is women in engineering, science and technology. Since the three dirrectors of the team are all women, we have decided to embrace this role and reach out to the other women in the school and the community. I am glad to say that there is a total of 5-6 girls on our team so far, which is double what we had last year. It is a great improvement and we all encourage everyone to participate in FIRST.

Well, I’m looking forward to what is coming and hope that we will all have fun.

Dirrector of Mechanical Build and Design

Brittany Parker