Posts by Sraivyn

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

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[…]

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[…]

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

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Prepped the robot Saturday’s Lego Brickmaster event.

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[…]

Debrief: Cons: Pros:

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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.[…]

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[…]

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.[…]

First test drive of the robot with full functionality.