Posts in 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[…]

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[…]

Date: 6/9/2025 6:00pm – 9:00pm Attendance: Gavin Bodey, Preston Duff, Eric Vallery, Jordan, Kyle, Nick, Coach Bodey, and Coach Dave Plan: Get the T-shirt canon[…]

As a team, we worked on the t-shirt cannon: As individuals:

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[…]

We showed of the t-shirt cannon at a school STEM convention in the Air Force Museum. Here is the take away Today We switched the[…]

Thursday is outreach day. Today we are preparing for taking the t-shirt cannon to a stem convention at Dayton national air-force museum. This includes some[…]

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[…]

All go for the T-shirt cannon robot. Brainstorming time! New member added: Tanner Noble. ~ Attendance: Preston, Eric, Gavin, Tanner, Jordan.

Prepped the robot Saturday’s Lego Brickmaster event.

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[…]