Prototypes Today, Talon members continued to prototype and refine subsystem ideas for the upcoming season. From active intakes that deploy with parallel bars to unprecedented turrets that our team has only dabbled in, this season Talon members are reaching out of their comfort zone trying new concepts, while still staying…
2022 Build Season Day 6 (1/13/2022)
Author: Dylan Curry More Prototyping And Work Today is the fifth day since Rapid React was announced and we are still hard at work with all the prototypes we are making. Today we continued work on our intake and outtake prototypes. We have also started to get the measurements right…
2022 Build Season Day 4 (1/11/2022)
Authors: Dylan Curry, Kenny Nguyen Day Summary Today was the third day since Rapid React was announced and everyone was hard at work. The subteams divided into groups to figure out how we will conquer the great challenge that is ahead of us. For all of this week everyone will…
2022 Build Season Day 3 (1/10/2022)
Authors: Kenny Nguyen, Dylan Curry Prototypes Today talon members were successfully able to make a prototype climber that could hang and pull itself up into a parallel position as it would climb the bars. Although unfinished the design so far appears to work smoothly. The Climber Prototype 1 uses pistons…
2022 Build Season Day 2 (1/9/2022)
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…
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…