Practice 4/19/25
Our Gratuitous coach has done it again. Providing Countless resources for the T-Shirt Cannon Robot free of cost. So today we took some inventory or[…]
Practice 4/14/25
All go for the T-shirt cannon robot. Brainstorming time! New member added: Tanner Noble. ~ Attendance: Preston, Eric, Gavin, Tanner, Jordan.
State Bound
Performance Over the summer Awards Timeline Notes – every meeting Scrum meeting starting at 09 hundred No late attendance. End last 15 minutes with scrum
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[…]