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…
2022 Build Season Day 19 (2/8/2022)
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…
2022 Build Season Day 18 (2/7/2022)
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…
2022 Build Season Day 17 (2/3/2022)
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…
2022 Build Season Day 16 (2/2/2022)
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…
2022 Build Season Day 15 (2/1/2022)
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…
2022 Build Season Day 14 (1/31/2022)
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…
2022 Build Season Day 13 (1/20/2022)
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…
2022 Build Season Day 11 (1/18/2022)
Author: Dylan Curry Prototype voting. Today During our weekly team meeting we all came together and voted on all of our different ideas and designs. During the meeting the team talked about these designs. We all discussed on what works well with the designs and what doesn’t. Once we finished…
2022 Build Season Day 10 (1/17/2022)
Authors: Devh, Pearl Adjustable Hood The adjustable hood rotates the limelight 360 degrees so that it has a better view of the hoops on the field. Using a NEO, it lets the gears spin. The smaller gear is the one attached to the NEO. The programming team tried to make…