Build Week 6

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 focused heavily on finding and patching up the leaks as well as organizing the wires as best as possible. Our programmers still did not get as much time with the robot as they were hoping for, as mechanical endeavors took us through the day before Week 0. However, we have a team tradition of staying late the night before Week 0 to make finishing touches, so programmers had a couple hours on Saturday night to tune some of their code to the competition robot.

The Late Night Tradition: Saturday, February 15th was our school’s Sweetheart’s Dance. This meant the building was open until 11:00pm, so we could stay later than usual work on the robot and tune our code. It is one of our favorite days in the season because we are together for over 12 hours together, which leads to a lot of progress and fun. We even borrowed the Leonardo DiCaprio cutout for a team picture.