Day Summary Breakfast The start of a good day comes with breakfast. While easing into the lobby of the hotel members woke up at different times. All of these times being early in the morning, Talon was ready to go by 7:30am. We quickly rushed to the DECC from our…
NORTHERN LIGHTS REGIONAL Day 1 3/2/23
The Northern lights Regional is the first competition of the season for the team. Starting super late Wednesday night our drive team traveled alongside our robot trailer to get all the way up to Duluth. Once they arrived they unpacked the trailer and settled into the hotel getting plenty of…
2023 Build Season Days 32-39 (2/19-26/2023)
Authors: Adhi K, Dylan C, Timothy M Week Summary Whew… We’ve been busy! These last few weeks talon has had tests, design pivots, and loads of fun. Enjoy! Sunday-19th With the deadline of February 20 set for the completion of our practice bot, we were hard at work to complete…
2023 Build Season Days 26-31 (2/13-18/2023)
Weekly Summary With the build season coming to a close Talon is in a really good spot. Our practice bot was finished this week, our code is almost done, and we got to practice a slight amount. Everyone here at talon is super excited for our Duluth tournament. Monday-13th Marketing…
2023 Build Season Days 21-25 (2/6-10/2023)
Week 5 Summary The week was quite eventful for the team. To start off the weekend, we dropped off metal to be anodized at our great sponsor named HardCoat inc. In addition to that, the team was able to finish the entire drivetrain and start construction of the elevator. On…
2023 Build Season Days 16-20 (1/30-2/3/2023)
Week Summary Monday-30th Open room for Monday was similar to every other Monday. With open room starting at 3:30 talon got to work. We cut plates on the CNC machine for the intake that we previously voted on a few team meetings ago. Once the plates were cut, an assembly…
2023 Build Season Days 11-15 (1/23-28/2023)
Authors: Dylan C, Isaac M Weekend Updates The weekend was filled with the team CADing as Tuesday’s team meeting would require the team to present a“fully” finished robot. Open room did occur, but the two days were mainly accompanied by cleaning and other smaller projects. Monday-23rd Monday came around and…
2023 Build Season Days 6-10 (1/17-20/2023)
Authors: Andy S, Eleanor G, Dylan C Weekly Summary Instead of the regular daily blog post, the team has been doing, the media team has decided to switch to weekly summaries focusing on the entire week’s events. Tuesday-17th Today was quite busy for the team. Starting off the day, everyone…
2023 Build Season Day 5 (1/16/23)
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…