Day summary Beginning Of The Day Today was the first day of Minnesota’s 10,000 Lakes Regional tournament. With the first day full of practice matches Talon was able to get a lot of needed testing in. Below there is a summary of the entire day: With most of the team…

Authors: Pearl Jain, Andrew Georgioff Infinite Recharge at Home Submissions Much of our team focus lately has been on preparing for the first major deadline, which was March 4. This was the deadline for the written submissions for Infinite Recharge at home, Game design, and the Innovation Challenge. Despite it…

Despite only being three hours, today was a very productive day. The drivetrain was finally fixed and progress was made on mounting the new intake onto the practice bot.  Drivetrain As mentioned above, the drivetrain was fixed today! The issue we had encountered was due to the way the motor…

Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Pearl Jain     Today was a quieter day, with a smaller amount of people than other open room times. Due to this, plus being unable to set up the field, we decided to focus on disassembling unnecessary mechanisms and programming. Raspberry Pi The programming team has been…

Authors: Andrew Georgioff Rollers We received the rubber tubing we ordered today! This shortage of rubber tubing was the main reason Sunday was mainly focused on practice (and a small amount of prototyping). At first we struggled to get the rubber over the plastic tubing, even when we were using…

Authors: Andrew Georgioff Practicing the new challenges While yesterday was spent fabricating parts for the new intake, today was spent primarily adjusting to the new challenge and deciding the approach we wanted to take for them. One notable change we made was adding a “net” behind the power port. This…