This has been my second year on the team, but my first as the team safety officer. It was surprising to see the constant attention needed to keep everyone from possible hazards. But, as the season progressed, it started to take less. There seemed to come a point where everyone finally accepted the importance of safety. Keeping the [...]
Congratulations Sam on winning the first Dean’s List Award. It is well deserved. See for yourself: Sam Scharles has been committed to FIRST since 2003 when she joined FLL and told her coach she was a natural-born leader. Since then, her life has revolved around FIRST, as a FLL member, a FRC Team 930 member [...]
As we come to the end of hundreds of intense hours of work leading to the Wisconsin FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Regional event on March 11 – 13, on behalf of all the mentors and Team 930, I would like to thank you for allowing your child to participate in the amazing adventure of FRC. [...]
Six weeks ended yesterday, February 22nd, with the crating of Munitio. Though she lies in a crate for the next two weeks, work won’t stop on making her better and better. You see, the scrimmage Sunday taught us quite a few things about our own robot performance along with that of others. We learned that [...]
I have been told many times that my legacy to team 930 is our website. When I first joined the team, there was no website. Nothing to go off of. I tried to make something in only a few weeks: the layout was mediocre; the content was so-so. But the attempt, the groundwork was there. [...]
It’s Week Six (of six) of the 2010 FRC season. As if the title of this blog isn’t enough of a cliché, how about this – the problems that you experience are always those that you don’t plan for. Sounds simple and obvious, right? Week Six (of six), Day Two (Tuesday): The basics of the [...]
The doors open.
I walk in and
hear the noises [...]
The past five weeks of this season have been some of the most intellectually stimulating of my entire robotics experience. Being a 3-year member it is great that this year we were given a challenge where we could develop a more complicated robot and execute it well. Designing ball control systems helps us better maneuver with a [...]
This year our firmware team (me, JD, Bryan, and Taylor) was asked to code not one, but two different ways of driving our robot. Based on our strategy, our team’s electrical/firmware mentor Jeff decided that a Doom technique would be best (and I say him because we were all too young to know what he [...]
This year’s electrical hardware team (Adam, Bryan, Neil, and myself) has been making loads of progress this season. With a 1:1 rookie ratio, the two new members caught on to everything at an extremely fast pace… partly because of our amazing teaching skills and also because of their awesome intellect (mostly from the latter =] ). We have [...]
