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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

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