Though the team hasn’t been able to keep up the promise updating the blog daily, we can assure you that the team has made a lot of progress. For one thing, the programming team has had another breakthrough in the robot’s technology by implementing a gyroscope to field-orientate the robot. Essentially, is demonstrated in the [...]
It had been the most productive day that team has had in years. Everyone showed up to the meeting, and were all passionate in creating a capable-robot for the 2012 FRC Season on the first early Saturday morning starting from 8Am-3PM. The mechanical team broke out all the tools and started to configure the chassis [...]
Everything to get somewhere has to start somewhere. At Team 871, it was decided to take it calmly and discuss all the plans over the course of 6 days. Today, the team had full-attendance, plus new members. We all took out the robot from the 2011 FRC Season game, LogoMotion. It was driven around to see if [...]
A team is a group of players forming one side in a competitive game; a common goal. A team is also a collaboration of a sub-groups. At Team 871′s hubs, there are 4 main sub-groups; Mechanical, Electrical, Programming, and CAD. The mechanical team actually sat down to figure out if the idea posed by the [...]
The team had already come up with the actual objectives of the robot. They were also done with coming up ideas for accomplishing the task of actually gets balls in the basket. The real question of the day was actually how the robot was going to travel the length of the field. Go through the [...]
Part of the assignment of being in a robotics team is coming up with ideas and concepts yourself. Each team member successfully came through with a design they liked for a type of robot that could be accomplished. With the the aid of the mentors, the actual specifications of the robot were drawn up. The [...]
A big part of being a member of a robotics team is being able to brainstorm ideas for every aspect for the team. Even before this, the team carried out the tradition of sitting down and spending majority of the day examing every rule and regulation of the competition. This is a rather a helpful process [...]
Team 871 was surely attending the kickoff today at Stony Brook University. We are so excited to see how we will come through in this year’s game, Rebound Rumble.