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…

Quick Overview Today wasn’t the most productive day for the build side of the team due to all of the programming and design that still needs to get done. However we were able to test out the climber prototype that we made on monday. Overall we did clean some of…

Weekly Team Meeting Today Talon Robotics had our weekly team meeting where we discussed the remainder of the season and what the future holds for the team. We discussed the Northern lights tournament which will take place in Duluth at the beginning of March. If you are a team member…

Tests After Tests Today we continued to test the turret design that we agreed on two weeks ago at the prototype vote meeting. We tested out different compressor levels on the cargo. We wanted to find the optimal pressure level for the best bounce. We also brought out the old…

Author: Dylan Curry More Prototyping  Today started off very slowly but things quickly picked up as we started to work on some more prototypes. Today we worked on disassembling the old intake design that we have decided to use for the main robot. We also used the same parts from…