Chicken Bot Pie has finally gotten a chance to test our robot in real world conditions and we are very pleased with the results! This past Saturday we attended the Week 0 event at Irondale High School, and drove our robot in game conditions on a full size field. Weeks 6 and 7 were the lead up to the Week 0 event, and it was important to have extra shop time to make sure our robot was performing at its peak. Chicken Bot Pie would like to thank our coaches for arranging for ext

Build Season Week 5 has been lively! Our team has been working hard to assemble and complete the manufacturing for our competition robot and create systems for use in the season Programming The programming team accomplished many goals this week. Our biggest hurdle was wiring all of our subsystems - the shooter, drivetrain, and intake mechanism. We successfully wired our drivetrain & shooter, and are eagerly awaiting the Build subteam’s completion of the intake & climber. Next

Build Season Week 3 has been exciting. The team is moving at a fast pace to develop a strategy and design and build a robot before our Week Zero practice competition on February 24th. Here are some of the highlights of the team’s accomplishments Design Review We had a design review where the team invited engineers, STEM professionals, and other experts to review the team’s plans, strategy, and designs. We have learned that design reviews are something that is commonly done i

Subteam Highlights Operations Operations has been continuing to focus on the weekly newsletter and competition awards. The deadline for many awards is looming, currently, the team is most focused on the Impact Award. FIRST’s Impact Award focuses on teams that embody the spirit of raising awareness and access to science and technology. Women in STEM The team is committed to increasing the participation of women on the team and in STEM. This season the number of women on the te

This is Chicken Bot Pie’s first weekly newsletter, covering Build Season Weeks 1 and 2. The official build season has finally launched for this FRC season with the exciting challenge, called Crescendo! Pre-Season Report But first, we want to update you on what we did during the pre-season (September to December). Our team was very productive and accomplished so much to prepare for the season! New and Returning Coaches Celeste Hill (Head coach) Michael Scholz (Assistant coach)

In week 3, we disassembled our old robot from last year’s competition this week.. Speaking of our progress, Team 3082 is keeping up with our project management timeline, and our progress is described below. Coming up, we have a Week Zero competition on February 23rd, where we will be able to test this year’s design against other local teams in practice matches and gather valuable data about our robot’s performance. It is an opportunity to network and learn how other teams ap

On January 7th, the annual FRC (FIRST Robotics Challenge) Charged Up was released. The challenge includes picking up traffic cones and cubes, placing them on poles and shelves of various heights, and balancing three robots on a seesaw-like charge station. As always, we are competing with three robots on the opposing alliance on a field somewhat smaller than a basketball court. The game is designed to make extending our arm to reach the highest scoring location almost impossi

Overview: As the first competition back post-covid, the team was excited to display our hard work at the 10,000 Lakes Regional on April 7-9. Although there were a few hiccups, the team is ready to learn from this experience and make the necessary changes to the robot before the state competition on May 7th. We played an intense finals match, finishing 2nd overall as regional finalists. Our record was 9-0-8 (Win-Tie-Loss) for the entirety of the competition, including the pla

Overview : Things are looking up after competing at the Great Northern Regional on February 26-29. We know we have a lot to learn before our next competition comes up on March 25-28, but we are proud of our performance at our first regional event this season. We ranked 4th overall and led the 4th-seeded alliance through to the Semifinals. We maintained a record of 8-0-1 (Win-Tie-Loss) throughout the Qualification matches, and 10-0-3 for the entirety of the competition includi

Team 3082: Week 0 Update Week 0 Event: At the practice competition, Week 0, we saw our robot in a competition setting for the first time. It gave us the opportunity to put students in real competition roles. Our pit crew got comfortable with making quick fixes between matches, and our drive team took advantage of the drive practice. We also had students pit scouting to help them grow more comfortable with talking to other teams, and students stand scouting to understand what

Team 3082: Week Six Update Pulling it Together: This week was all about getting prepped for our Week 0 practice competition on February 16th. With all parts for the shooter and handoff finally in, we turned our designs into reality. Our hopper needed a little more attention after further evaluation, so we made the necessary adjustments to that and got everything finished and attached to the robot. One of the biggest troubles was sorting out pneumatic leaks, so our electronics

Team 3082: Week Five Update Electronics: We made spent much of this week learning about pneumatics and assembling our robot-ready electronics board. Once the robot’s belly pan was attached, we were able to attach it and wire everything up, so we officially have a driving robot and running intake. Since this did not take as much time as we had in meetings this week, we looked into the getting the sticker machine running so that we can print our sponsor stickers for the robot b