Authors: Aedin Yu, Michael Proper Intake Prototypes: One of our strategies this year is to avoid the human player feeder station and pick up balls on the ground instead. In order to do this, we plan to create an active intake that will go over the bumper. With fresh ideas…
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2022 Build Season Kickoff (1/8/2022)
Authors: Dylan Curry, Rapid React Today on January 8th Talon robotics joined thousands of other teams on watching this years game reveal. We all gather together to have a pancake breakfast where we would wait for First to reveal this years game on twitch. As we watched on twitch we…
Bots For Tots
Authors: Kenny Nguyen, Dylan Curry Basic Overview On Monday the 11th, 2021. Talon Robotics hosted the Bots for Tots event at our local Eden Prairie Mall. This event was to work with the Eden Prairie police department to help fundraise and support the “Toys for Tots” program. We had children…
Minne Mini Offseason Event Recap
Authors: Dylan Curry, Pearl Jain General Overview Minne Mini is a regional event that takes place in the offseason of each year. Its goal is to prepare FRC teams in the region for the upcoming build season. Just like MRI we were able to compete with our practice and competitive…
MRI Offseason Event Recap
Authors: Adhiraiyan Kartheesan, Pearl Jain General Overview MRI, which stands for Minnesota Regional Invitation, was our second offseason event this year. We want to get as much experience since most of our team graduated within the last two years, and we haven’t had many chances to give our newer team…
Open Room October 2nd
Authors: Adhiraiyan Kartheesan, Pearl Jain T-shirt Cannon The EPHS Homecoming game is coming up, which means that we’re going to be on the field shooting t-shirts into the crowd. Today, our first priority was making sure that our T-shirt cannon was operational. It uses air compressed to 80 psi, so…
Talon Robotics September Update : EMCC (9/18/2021)
Authors: Adhiraiyan Kartheesan, Pearl Jain General Overview EMCC was a fun, relaxed event where teams in the metro area met up to work on their robots, play practice matches, and learn more about other teams. The format was very open; there weren’t any scheduled matches, nor any official scores or…
Talon Robotics March Update
Authors: Pearl Jain, Andrew Georgioff Infinite Recharge at Home Submissions Much of our team focus lately has been on preparing for the first major deadline, which was March 4. This was the deadline for the written submissions for Infinite Recharge at home, Game design, and the Innovation Challenge. Despite it…
Day 12 – Fixes and Progress (2/11/2021)
Despite only being three hours, today was a very productive day. The drivetrain was finally fixed and progress was made on mounting the new intake onto the practice bot. Drivetrain As mentioned above, the drivetrain was fixed today! The issue we had encountered was due to the way the motor…
Day 11 – Meetings and Drivetrain Testing (2/09/2021)
Authors: Pearl Jain, Andrew Georgioff Today was mostly continuing to perform tests to determine the Drivetrain issue. Despite much of the day being meetings, we still managed to pinpoint the issue down to two possible causes. Drivetrain: We were experimenting with adjustments made on Saturday when we identified another issue…