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WACO Aerobatics team helped out at a local church today to clean parts of the building.

Moved project management from Jira into Notion as a separate page called “Project Management” Atlassian was asking for $15k per year for us to use[…]

A new sponsorship request was submitted to Radiance Technologies in Beavercreek, OH. The information submitted included: WACO Aerobotics Team 5140 comprises 8 – 10 high[…]

Gavin and Michael worked on coding the arm and making it run at ludicrous speeds. Preston, Nick, and Eric got a crash course on coding[…]

💡 Gavin worked on the coding the camera for the robot 💡 Jordan and Nick worked (unsuccessfully) on installing a latch for the hinging components[…]

Now with a flip top head Robot base drive test

Programmer and Build Teams hard at work! Programmers logged into the new robot and successfully created a working teleOP mode. Using drone controls to more[…]

Confirmed that encoder wires and motors are still functioning properly. Added a flip-up platform above the Command and Control modules and wiring to easily reach[…]

Programmers We Began setting up and define a way for our robot to automatically calculate the conversation between degrees and CPR (Counts Per Rotation). This[…]

Programmers Michael and Gavin working out a Java problem Fought Honorable against a strange bug preventing any motor from turning. Ends up we misnamed a[…]

Programmers Perfected encoders and tweaked functions to make the distances more precise and easy to change. We also added a break so the program ends[…]

WACO 5140 Visited Miami East Girl Scouts. Presenting our program and team accomplishments to further interest in the robotics community. We can now say the[…]

Programming Fixed program to correctly use encoders and made a function that adds an acceleration to the beginning of the drive forwards. To slowly start[…]

WACO Aerobotics toured the robotics departments at Miami University and got to control a Boston Dynamics Spot robodog. Talked with the head of the industrial[…]