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

Team 3082: Weeks Three and Four Update Design: Week three placed a big emphasis on spacing out areas for each of the robot’s subsystems, so we made a CAD with the set spacing. Over these two weeks, we also approved designs for, sketched and finished CADs for our shooter, power cell hopper, and intake. Prototyping: We mocked up a quick intake prototype to test spacing and its ability to pick up power cells over the bumpers. It worked very well, and we used this setup to refine

Team 3082: Week Two Update Mechanical (Prototyping): Our mechanical subteam has been focusing on refining our prototypes for the power cell (yellow ball) carrier and shooter. Currently, we have four power cell carrier designs and two shooter designs to pick from. We additionally set up a test field to compare the accuracy of our shooters side-by-side. Our goal going into week three is to choose so that we can refine, CAD, and build our official robot mechanisms. Mechanical (f

Team 3082: Week One Update Kickoff: On January 4th, the 2020 FIRST Robotics season finally began. Our team met from 8:45am-4:00pm to see the game reveal, strategize, look through the rules, and plan our Week 1 priorities. The Game: This year’s game is FIRST: Infinite Recharge. In the game, there is a tall structure with 3 large openings to score. Additionally, there is a color wheel that the robot must spin in order to score more points. At the end of the match, there is a pe