Authors: Andrew Georgioff Practicing the new challenges While yesterday was spent fabricating parts for the new intake, today was spent primarily adjusting to the new challenge and deciding the approach we wanted to take for them. One notable change we made was adding a “net” behind the power port. This…
Day 1 – Build Season? (1/16/2021)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff 2021 Season! As you have likely noticed, this is the first post of the 2021 season blog! Due to COVID-19 cutting the 2020 season short, FIRST is doing a different set of challenges for the 2021 season called Infinite Recharge at home, with several challenges. The full…
COVID-19 Update 2: PPE, Pit Cart, and Website improvements
Authors: Andrew Georgioff While we have been unable to meet to do larger offseason projects due to COVID-19, we were still able to work on a few smaller tasks. PPE Printing: Due to the effects of COVID-19, many places have had a shortage of PPE. Many FRC teams, notably 2052…
Day 1 – Offseason? (3/15/2020)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff, COVID-19 As you have likely noticed, we are into the offseason. This is because all of this season’s current official FIRST events have either been canceled or postponed (https://www.firstinspires.org/covid-19). Additionally, our school has been shut down through spring break (starting March 28), so all meetings will be…
Days 67, 70, 71 – Winding Down the Season (03/10/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff These days were the last days of open room for a while. Intake Redesign Planning: At Northern Lights we realized that a wider active intake would be very helpful. One thing that a wider intake would help us achieve is a 5 ball auto that…
Day 64 – NLR Semifinalists (03/08/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Match 63: Foreshadowing This was another tough match. Throughout the match we managed to out-shoot the other alliance, keeping the score slightly in our favor. However, the extra points they obtained from their double climb managed to barely tip the match, resulting in a loss…
Day 63 – Rank: Three (03/06/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Match 7: Failed to Climb In our first match of the day, we were doing well until endgame. We had shot (and scored) 12 balls. However, when we tried to climb, we were not able to do so. As it turns out, this is because…
Day 62 – Northern Lights: Practice Day (03/05/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff We skipped a few blogs. Day 60: We packed the trailer with our stuff Day 61: We brought the trailer and the students to Duluth Scouting We used today to get a more general overview of all of the competing teams. We started this with…
Day 59 – Final Duluth Preparations (3/2/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Most of today was spent on final preparations for Duluth. Tomorrow, we will only be meeting until 5:30 due to the presidential primary, so we aimed to finish all major robot changes by today. The mandatory Duluth travel meeting was also today (from 7 to…
Day 58 – ???? Comp Bot Works (3/1/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Above: A pic of the comp bot shooting from the initiation line Things that work on the comp bot Wheel of fortune Flywheel shooter Intake Hopper Drivetrain Everything that we tested works quite well. We ran into a small issue with the hopper where one…