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[…]
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[…]
Practice – January 18th
Gavin worked on designing a new wheel-driven specimen grabber. Jordan worked on putting a DC motor on the existing claw to make it more stable.[…]
Jan 13, 2025 – Sponsor Demo and Practice
Demonstrated robot to WACO Board of Directors and Collins Aerospace. Went over FTC game rules, how the robot was built and answered general questions about[…]
January 11th – Competition
Today was the first qualifying competition. We started out doing really well, being in 8th place out of 26, but eventually fell behind to 21st.[…]
Practice – January 9th
We fixed some issues in coding, making the robot easier to handle during competition. For example, we switched our claw assembly to a locked position[…]