This is my first year being on FRC Team 930. This being said, I am considered to be a rookie. But I came into this season different than most of the other rookies—I have been a part of FIRST for four years. During these four years, I participated in FLL. My sister, who is two [...]
So far this year I’ve learned more than I could have imagined last summer. I had learned some things from my dad, since he works in mechanical design, and I did work with him sometimes in his workshop. Units in eighth grade tech ed, such as drafting, electricity, and pneumatics, also helped. However, none of these, [...]
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 [...]
It’s the end of week four and Team 930 has moved from concept, to test bot, to design, to the birth of the robot that will traverse the field at the Milwaukee Regional in March. As I write this, the team hovers over the robot at the end of 10 hours of steady work. At this [...]
Team 930 is getting ready for the 2010 season. We have found a new shop to work in. We received enough funding from NASA, GE, and all of our other awesome and amazing sponsors to guarantee that we will be financially stable enough to compete in this year’s game. We have fundraised as much as [...]
This past Friday, the Mukwonago BEARs robotics team held our second annual FIRST LEGO League Kickoff at Mukwonago High School. Besides revealing the challenge, the robotics team members created seminars covering all aspects of the FLL challenge (project, building, programming, teamwork). Parent and coaching sessions were held as well to get everyone ready for the [...]
Today was busy, but satisfying. By the end of the day, we had a new drivetrain, new and improved conveyors and a revamped shooter. But the icing on the cake was passing inspection just before the pits closed. The team started early, walking over to the Georgia World Congress Center at 7 am along with [...]
Here we are in Atlanta, Georgia for the FIRST National Championship. It was a beautiful day to be walking around this city – the sky was blue, the temperature was mild and we were all excited to finally arrive! On our flight from Milwaukee, we were joined by members from Team 2194 – Fondy Fire [...]
Well, today was pretty uneventful. We took off this morning from Milwaukee and landed a few hours later in Atlanta, playing Pokemon and listening to music all the way there. Once we landed we took the train to our hotel’s general area and walked a few blocks there. For lunch we went to the Hard [...]
