Sabercat Robotics

The last two days have been filled with fine tuning our robot. We’ve adjusted a few things on our climber and have successfully made two 30 point climbs in matches. One of those we dumped into the pyramid goal! In the matches afterwards, we had a few problems with one of our clamps on our climber, which caused us to be unstable while climbing. We have since fixed the problem and are excited to play in our last 4 qualification matches tomorrow.

Stop by our pit tomorrow to receive a robot cake pop!

Congrats to our sister school, Chaparral, for winning the Imagery Award!

We will post more pictures from the AZ Regional and from Las Vegas soon!

February 19 was Stop Build Day, and we finished bagging at 11:59! It was a great night and we are excited to continue working until competition.

In other news, we have turned in the Chairman’s Award! If you do not know, the Chairman’s Award is the prestigious award a FIRST team can win. It recognizes a team who has been active in their community by volunteering, mentoring, and outreach. They are a team who truly shows FIRST values! Last year, our alliance partner, the Coconuts 2486, won the Chairman’s Award at the Arizona Regional! They inspired to try again for Chairman’s!

We have also turned in the Entrepreneurship Award. The Entrepreneurship Award is our Business Plan.

Both awards will be posted here soon if you want to check them out!

After a couple of days of rest, we will return to our workshop!

Duel in the Desert was awesome!

We sent a group to set up our pyramid and the field on Friday, and in the morning, we set off to participate!

Unfortunately, we came across some  unforeseen problems, but we will be ready for Bag & Tag!

All of the other teams who participated were wonderful. It was great to see some familiar faces!

We got a lot done last week!

The Ditto has been completely manufactured, and we have mounted it to the TARF.

It’s upside down here, but you get the picture!

The Controls team worked with the pneumatics and logitech controllers.

Operations has been working on grants for next season as well as continuing work for the Entrepreneurship and Chairman’s Awards.

Tomorrow night a few of us will be at Mohave Middle School to demonstrate the 2012 robot!

Days left until Stop Build Day: 13

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STARA is still working on the steel pyramid that they are going to donate to us.

Our robot design is finally coming into place. We should begin working on the robot this week!

We were able to accomplish a lot of shooter prototyping, as well as working on the CAD today. The Controls team worked on some of the autonomous code. We have an early release day tomorrow, so we are working more hours.

We accomplished a lot today. First of all, the Kitbot officially moves! We had some problems with the WiFi setup, but we fixed the problem.

We also worked on the Shooter prototype. Right now we have the frame as well as the mounting plate.

We finished the Practice field, besides the pyramid.

David, Alex, John, and Mr. Patera worked on the climbing mechanism design.

Mr. Brandt worked with Seong and Tiffaney on the scale model of the pyramid. It’s almost complete!