Author: Eleanor G Day Summary We have gotten our challenge for this season, so the last few days were filled with ideas and prototypes. We had different groups working on different ideas. Tomorrow we will meet as a team and weigh out the pros and cons of each prototype.
2023 Build Season Day 4 (1/11/23)
Prototyping Once More… Today, we kept prototyping multiple intake designs for the new game, the one pictured below is an element of a swinging claw design. We also had people working with constant force springs and linear actuation intakes. Just like the last couple of days, the team has been…
2023 Build Season Day 3 (1/10/23)
Authors: Andy S, Dylan C Wood, Metal, and A Hammer On the third day of prototyping, the team steadily progressed as members worked diligently to bring prototype designs to life. We have made significant progress on the intake prototype for the robot. Collaboration was vital as many team members contributed…
2023 Build Season Day 2 (1/9/23)
Daily Summary After yesterday’s successful prototyping, the team started its second prototype day. Today in particular the room got to see more members so, we were able to continue work on the prototypes. Prototypes, Research & Practice Yesterday we started assembling a prototype that could test out compression with different…
2023 Build Season Day 1 (1/8/23)
Open-Room Updates Author: Allen A Today was our first open room of the 2023 robotics season. We had many good ideas for prototypes from kickoff and were excited to build them. Today we made several of those prototypes come to life. In addition to this, we practiced driving our demo…
2023 Build Season Kickoff (1/7/23)
Authors: Ani R Dylan C Introduction Today marked the start of the 2023 Build Season. Everyone arrived at school for our traditional pancake breakfast at 9:00 AM where we all slowly gathered and woke up with coffee and orange juice. After breakfast, our team took one massive team picture (along…
Open Room And Dodgeball 12/16-18/22
Event Summaries On Friday the 16th the team had another usual open room. Below is a summary of the entire evening along with a bonus segment on a South-West Hub meeting the team had on the 18th. Open-Room Impact Presenters Interview Open room was quite busy this time around, to…
FTC Banquet
Event Summary Over the past few months, Talon has worked closely with our middle school to provide a robotics program for its students. With much success, we have rebuilt its own FTC program. By having Talon members mentor multiple teams. The Eden Prairie Robotics program has had a great rookie…
Bots For Tots 2022
Event Overview Bots for Tots was a huge success. We at Talon Robotics, along with the Eden Prairie Police Department, demonstrated our robots (although in different ways) and connected with the kids and parents. This year, many parents were very interested in the robots, which is good news because the…
MMR 2022
Event Summary MMR (Minnesota Miniature Regional) is an off-season competition consisting of 36 teams, and it is the last off-season competition we at team 2502 go to. This event was definitely a great experience for both experienced and new team members. There were a few hurdles we had to jump…