Posts by Sraivyn

3D printed robot drive base

Oct. 20, 2025 Practice

Grayson, Gavin, Preston, Eric, Nick, Maddox, Jude This is the first time the team has been able to assemble the field AND continue robot design.[…]

Sept. 13, 2025 – Design Meeting

Took the previous meetings individual elements ideas and started flushing out individual robot designs, incorporating the drive, pickup, storage and shooting. These initial designs fell[…]

FTC DECODE Kickoff Event Location : Dayton Regional STEM School 1724 Woodman Dr., Kettering, Ohio Here is the tentative schedule: 10:45am – Doors open 11:00 – 11:30 – Sophia Lander will be running a Dean's List workshop 11:30 – 12:00 – Lunch and social time with a Kahoot! 12:00 – 12:30 – Game reveal kickoff video! 12:30 – 1:00 – Field Walkthrough 1:00 – 2:45 – Group brainstorming and strategizing sessions (Autonomous, Tele-Op, and End Game), with an optional bingo game instead! 2:45 – 3:00 – closing remarks and contact info sharing

DECODE Kickoff

DRSS discovery which now is Mission Glitch, is hosting a DECODE kickoff event again Location : Dayton Regional STEM School 1724 Woodman Dr., Kettering, Ohio[…]

July 12, 2025 – Practice

Mikayla and Grayson continued creating a new version of last years FTC robot. Working with joints a rack and pinion to lift and extend the[…]

Radiance Gives check distribution to WACO Aerobotics

Radiance Gives Support

WACO Aerobotics received generous support from Radiance Technologies this morning. Many thanks to Radiance Gives for supporting our FTC team this year!

June 21, 2025 – Practice

Welcome Grayson to the Aerobotics Team! Micaela and Gray got an intro to last seasons FTC robot, controlling and getting things plugged back together. Gavin[…]

June 14, 2025 – Field Test

Tested TShirt Cannon at Miami East High School stadium. Apparently forgot to charge battery because it quickly died and had to push to destinations. Wrapping[…]

Practice – 6/2/2025

Began final assembly of main collection tank and canon barrels. Collection tank parts cut, dry fit and glued.

5/31/2025 – Practice

Assembled T-Shirt Canon Mark III and test fired. Repeated firing was successful as well as firing tests using remote control trigger. Designed pre-load system for[…]

Miami East STEM Outreach

WACO Aerobotic students were asked to present projects for the AirForce STEM event. #5140 chose to start building a t-shirt canon and demonstrated the drivable[…]

March 8, 2025 Metal Milling

Aerobots went on an educational adventure to Edison Community College for some hands on learning for metal milling and lathing. Created adapters for new gear[…]

WACO Brickmasters Showcase

5140 participated in WACOs Lego Brickmasters event today, talking about FTC, the team and demoing the robot. Several groups of varying ages got to drive[…]

Feb. 24, 2025-Prep Robot

Prepped the robot Saturday’s Lego Brickmaster event.

Aerobotics Project Site

Moved away from Notion as we hit the 1000 page count very fast with the blog. Converted into a self hosted site using WordPress. Converting[…]

Practice – February 7

Driver meeting. We practiced with the robot, finding and fixing several issues: We replaced two servos that the wires came out of. We improved our[…]

Practice – February 3rd

We fixed the horizontal arm mechanism, which was slipping. After that, we drove the robot around and troubleshot issues with the hand servo. Kyle and[…]

Drivers Practice 1/30

Attendence: Preston, Gavin, Nicholas, Marcus Duff Finished attaching supported DC motors for horizontal arm. Found out that the slider in the arm came loose so[…]

Practice – January 27th

The team worked on strengthening the robot’s chassis and motors. Attendence: Preston, Nick, Jordan, Kyle, Carter, Stephen, Gavin Finished strengthening horizontal arm and reinforcing Both[…]

Practice – January 20th

We drove the robot and looked at problems that were occurring. We fixed them by switching to a pulley system for the horizontal arm. After[…]

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