Monday 2/10- Viki P. Touchdown on Talon Robotics! Back from our Superbowl weekend, Talon is ready to dive into a Monday! There were business meetings to attend, a robot to troubleshoot, and field elements to be made. To start our “meeting sandwich” as Audrey, one of our leads, calls it,…
Monday 1/20 Drivetrains and Deep Climbs – Connor P. Since it was MLK day we could get straight to work, and we started like a rocket! We quickly got our machines running all day to get parts ready, along with starting to get our deep climb attached to our drivetrain!…
Monday 1/13 On your marks, get set, CAD! – By Medha G. Welcome back from the weekend! The usual whirr of the CnC during the week was quelled this Monday because this day was a celebration- a milestone in our robot design. That’s right, this Monday was the start of…
Sunday, 11/24 Bots for Tots On Sunday, November 24th we demoed at the Eden Prairie mall in an event called Bots for Tots! Bots for Tots is an event where Talon Robotics partners with the charity Toys for Tots and demos our robot around the Eden Prairie Mall while collecting…
Sunday, 11/10 Talon Robotics Annual Fundraising Dinner This past weekend, Talon hosted our annual fundraising dinner Robots and Rotini. This is Talon’s annual pasta dinner fundraiser featuring demonstrations of robots from both our FRC (high school) and FTC (middle school) teams, a silent auction, a dinner, and so much more!…
Saturday, 10/26/24 EMCC was successful for Talon this year. EMCC is an off-season tournament that Talon participates in every year. It is a low-stakes tournament, using last season’s game, crescendo, designed to condition new robotics members to drive or operate a robot on a field with other robots. This allows…
Saturday (10/12) Harvest to Halloween We attended and demoed at Harvest to Halloween on Saturday, October 12th. Harvest to Halloween is a city of Eden Prairie event where people of all ages gather to celebrate Halloween at Riley Lake Park. There were many children so we had many opportunities to…
Wednesday 6/26 Summer starts when Open Room does We’re back! We had first open room this summer. After an impromptu room change, Talon is back and ready to begin doing summer projects. After recent changes on our team, the room was bustling with new excitement about what’s in store this…
Sunday, July 3rd Sparklefest! Sparklefest is an annual festival on July 3rd where many people come to celebrate. We decided to demonstrate our robots Cronus and Disco as part of the festivities this year. In around two weeks, we managed to plan transportation for the robot, gathered around 25 volunteers,…
Monday 3/18 Practice & Pizza Usually, Mondays are one of our busiest days in the open room. Instead, with most people being away for spring break, today was quite sluggish. Work on our robot continued as usual, just with fewer people. A lot of the work didn’t require an abundance…