After one heck of a busy weekend, our own little Mare Crisium finally jumped on a private jet to the tournament (complete with refreshments and an in-flight  movie).  Being away from our little robot for the first time since its birth, have been full of withdrawal, but we are getting along okay now. The team [...]

I would just like to briefly announce that our website has been submitted to FIRST for review. Our goal was the Website Excellent award, our hope is the best website of 2009 (in Milwaukee). Let’s hope for the best!!

We have been making great progress.  We haven’t had any major problems.   We have our conveyors put together and almost attached. We got our parts for the shooter and are assembling them. The electrical team has the controls system mounted and the programmers are testing their code. We managed to overcome the challenges we [...]

Despite the number of days left until the robot ships and the status of Mare Crisium, things remain fairly calm in Team 930′s shop. Additional and longer work sessions may have thwarted some of the apprehension or perhaps it’s just the makeup of the team. As roadblocks have dropped in our path, the team has [...]

As lead of the Firmware team this year, one of my first major decisions that I needed to make was that of the programming software and language we would use. Last season I was the only programmer and was provided only one option—C. This year, however, two rookies are on my team, and as a part of my sub-team, they had a say in what we were going to be doing for the next six plus weeks [...]

LEGO League is an exciting experience for intelligent young childeren of 5th to 8th grade.  When I was mentoring the Section LEGO Storms who met twice a week, I learned a lot from them.  Unfortunately, I cannot tell all of it in such a short amount of time, so I will just give a few highlights.  This years competition was a climate connect.  Building a LEGO NXT to compete with, the team was given [...]

Since the end of last build season Team 930 has talked to many community groups in our area – the Mukwonago Kiwanis Club, the Mukwonago Lions Club, and the Mukwonago Knights of Columbus. The Mukwonago Optimists Club visited our shop and watched the team in action as we worked on Mare Crisium for Lunacy. We have [...]

Team 930 started the summer helping the Mukwonago Community Library with its garden project. During the summer we helped the Mukwonago High School  Ecology Club paint messages next to sewer drains to make people aware of toxic chemicals that could be going down sewer drains and into the Mukwonago River, which is home to many endangered [...]

The build season is concluding and our team certainly has had its fair share of things going wrong. The season started off okay, we were making progress, the electrical team was learning the new controls system, programming was learning LabVIEW, mechanical team was designing the robot, and one of our new sub-teams, the electro-mechanical team, [...]

After a year of fundraising efforts foiled by inclement weather, the Mukwonago B.E.A.R.s (Building Extremely Awesome Robots) Robotics Team 930 finally achieved success when it provided concessions for the Mukwonago Regional FLL event in November, then held a raffle for gift baskets, sold Hexbugs and gave robot rides at the Wisconsin State FLL Competition in [...]