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Robot Updates Today was a longer open room which is very good for the robot and the team. Today we worked on putting grease on the drive train. We also started finalizing the electronics for the robot. As of now the robot is getting very close to being finished. Overall…

Robot Goodness Today during the open room team members continued to work on robot. In particular we worked on the battery mount and other parts. Because we have Friday off many team members were showing up to todays open room. This was very beneficial for the entire team as we…

Authors: Paul O’Connell, Dylan Curry Open Room + Robot News Today at talon we worked on the climber subsystem. We installed the pistons for the articulated climbing arms. We tested them on the climber on the climber structure. This showed us that we tilt too much when hanging. This lowered…

Authors: Dylan Curry, Kenny Nguyen Robot Updates In-take  Progress on the in-take continues after the 3D printer was all done with the parts we needed to continue the build. We have the members hammering in the pieces. Battery  We also have 5 new Interstate batteries and had members install leads….

Open-room Goodness Today was another busy and productive day for talon. Today the team continued to work on the practice bot. However today was somewhat difficult as we worked on mounting pieces onto the robot. Part of this task requires members to get parts in the right spot. This is…

Updates On Sub-teams The last two days were both very busy days for Talon. We had our regular meetings and open rooms. Yesterday the team had their regularly scheduled programming meeting. At the meeting they continued to work on their individual projects. They also talked about merging the code with…

Driver Station  New Driver station was made! The station is made up of a lot of rivets spaced  5-7in in between and the board holding the driver controls is polycarb. The Station is about 4 and a half inches in height and 3 and a half feet in length. We…

Team Meeting Today we had our weekly team meeting. We discussed the regular bunch of things but we also discussed the following: Week Zero is coming up for this season. Currently we are finishing up on the Cad designs, and right now we are porting over these models to the…

Drive train and Limelight Today was a busy day. Everyone was on their own separate projects but, on of the biggest job that we had today was working on our new Limelight sensor. For the autonomous period of the game we want the robot sense the goal. Now we are…

Authors: Kenny Nguyen, Dylan Curry Chains The chain problem has finally been resolved! Because the chain for the wheels was too long it would have a lot of slack, if we were to shorten the chain anymore then the chain would be too tight. After a few days we were…