Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Talon Robotics Team 2502 ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://team2502.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://team2502.com/blog/) - [Girls-Who-Code Summer Camp](https://team2502.com/2026/07/15/girls-who-code-summer-camp/) - Join the Talon Girls Who Code Summer Coding Team and Talon Robotics (Team 2502) for a free coding summer camp for female-identifying and nonbinary students at Eden Prairie High School from August 3–14, Monday through Friday, 4:00–5:30 PM. Open to students entering grades 6–12, from complete beginners to experienced coders. Learn through hands-on projects in - [End of REBUILT | Goodbye 2025-2026 Season](https://team2502.com/2026/05/28/end-of-rebuilt-goodbye-2025-2026-season/) - We just had our end-of-season banquet! This event is held to honor the work we've put in during the season and get everyone ready for the next great year! - [Woodie Flowers 2025/26 | Toni Knorr](https://team2502.com/2026/05/20/woodie-flowers-2025-26-toni-knorr/) - Here we share our essay, honoring our mentor Toni Knorr. This essay was written entirely by students, who personally selected her for our nomination. - [The Leadership Award: Honoring our Students](https://team2502.com/2026/03/16/the-leadership-award-honoring-our-students/) - We have some incredible people on our team, and the Leadership Award lets us honor two of those students. This year, we nominated Ally L and Charlotte S! - [Northern Lights: Duluth 2026](https://team2502.com/2026/03/10/northern-lights-duluth-2026/) - We just had our first competition! Read all about our time at the Northern Lights week one at Duluth. It had its ups and downs but was overall a great time! - [Open Room 2/9/26-2/13/26](https://team2502.com/2026/02/17/open-room-2-9-26-2-13-26/) - We have a very eventful week! Between finally getting our robot parts and wrapping up business loose ends, we got a lot done before our competition1 - [Open Room: 2/2/26-2/8/26](https://team2502.com/2026/02/10/open-room-2-2-26-2-9-26/) - Want to learn how we make space-grade robots? Follow along with our blog to see our full process! Here we turn metal and parts into something great! - [Open Room: Jan 26th-30th](https://team2502.com/2026/02/02/open-room-jan-26th-30th/) - We've been making great progress with our robot and business operations! It has been a fun week, and the season is looking like it'll be great! - [Pancakes! (And the Game Reveal) | Kickoff](https://team2502.com/2026/01/16/pancakes-and-the-game-reveal-kickoff/) - Written By: Audrey T Preparing for Kickoff Kickoff is a massive event, not just for our team but for all of FIRST Robotics Competition. There was a lot of preparation that had to go into this in order to both have fun and plan everything we needed. In the weeks leading up to it, we - [Minnesota School Board Convention!](https://team2502.com/2026/01/20/minnesota-school-board-convention/) - We were given the chance to meet our school board representives and network with a wide variety of businesses! It was cool to see everyone who supports schools! - [Open Room Week One: Getting Started!](https://team2502.com/2026/01/20/open-room-week-one-getting-started/) - It's time to get started with room! We had a lot to do and luckily have a lot of dedicated team members to help in getting it done! - [Happy Holidays! Bots for Tots '25](https://team2502.com/2025/12/27/happy-holidays-bots-for-tots-25/) - Written By: Audrey T What is Bots for Tots? Bots for Tots is a yearly holiday outreach event! At this event, we demo our robot, have craft activities, tell people about our programs, and, most importantly, collect toys to donate to an organization in need! It is a beloved team event full of holiday cheer - [Fun and Friendship: Girl Scout STEM Day](https://team2502.com/2025/12/21/fun-and-friendship-girl-scout-stem-day/) - We always love having our local Girl Scouts over for fun days of activities and, of course, snacks! Everyone had a great time and we're happy to see them again. - [Visting RFA: Connection and Learning](https://team2502.com/2025/12/16/visting-rfa-connection-and-learning/) - We love getting to work with our supporters on a deeper level! Getting to tour RFA's engineering site was super fun and informative for our team! Thank you! - [A Year of Change: Goodbye to Reefscape](https://team2502.com/2025/06/15/a-year-of-change-goodbye-to-reefscape/) - We faced a lot of challenges last season, forcing us to adapt. While this year sparked many changes, the work we put in is worth the outcome of a stonger team. - [MinneTrials Week 5 | Doing Things!](https://team2502.com/2025/12/01/minnetrials-week-5-doing-things/) - We're getting closer and closer to our competition date for MinneTrails! Our teams are working hard and supporting each other to get great bots! - [Feed My Starving Children - Outreach Event](https://team2502.com/2025/11/24/feed-my-starving-children-outreach-event/) - Continuing the Tradition For one of Talon’s monthly outreach events, we decided to continue the tradition by attending FMSC once again! This was a meaningful opportunity for our team members to come together and make a tangible impact. We joined volunteers from across the community to pack nutritious meals for children in need. Also, the - [MinneTrials Week Four | Taking Shape!](https://team2502.com/2025/11/18/minnetrials-week-four-taking-shape/) - Our robots are really starting to look like robots! This MinneTrials season is speeding by, and we're super happy to see how things are shaping up! - [Robots & Rotini | Our Pasta Fundraiser](https://team2502.com/2025/11/17/robots-rotini-our-pasta-fundraiser/) - Robots and Rotini is our largest fundraiser, and it went great with year! We want to give a big thank you to everyone who helped make this event great! - [MinneTrials Week Three | CAD, Spooky!](https://team2502.com/2025/11/05/minnetrials-week-three-cad-spooky/) - It was Halloween week during MinneTrials! While we skipped open room on Friday to give people time to celebrate, we still have a lot of spooky fun! - [FRC Northlands Day One | Strengths](https://team2502.com/2025/10/28/frc-northlands-day-one-strengths/) - We were super glad to be accepted into the FRC Northlands All Are Welcome FRC Student Leadership Program! This program aims to inspire inclusion within FRC! - [MinneTrials Week Two | Robots and Music](https://team2502.com/2025/10/29/minnetrials-week-two-robots-and-music/) - In our second week of MinneTrials open rooms we got a lot of work done! We had a ton of progress made, with some prioritizing CAD and others with building! - [MinneTrials Week One | Brainstorming Time!](https://team2502.com/2025/10/21/minnetrials-week-one-brainstorming-time/) - MinneTrials has kicked off and is in full swing! Read along to keep up with the progress of our Talon rookies as they learn the ropes and have some fun! - [Our MinneTrials Season 2 Has Arrived!](https://team2502.com/2025/10/21/our-minnetrials-season-2-has-arrived/) - We kicked off MinneTrials last Monday! It was a lovely day of people getting familiar with their teams and the skills needed to grow! - [Why YOU Should Join MinneTrials](https://team2502.com/2025/10/08/join-minnetrials/) - We're getting ready to kick off our MinneTrials season! MinneTrials is THE event for new team members, and we'd love to see y'all there! - [Halloween Fun: Harvest to Halloween](https://team2502.com/2025/10/15/halloween-fun-harvest-to-halloween/) - Nothing says a great time like costumes, bubbles, buttons, and robots! We spent our Saturday at the city's Harvest to Halloween demoing our team and having fun! - [First Offseason Tournament: MRI](https://team2502.com/2025/10/14/first-offseason-tournament-mri/) - We had a TON of fun at our first offseason competition of the year, MRI! Lefty was able to get back out onto the field, and our drive team got lots of practice! - [Recruiting From School | Activities Rush](https://team2502.com/2025/10/02/recruiting-from-school-activities-rush/) - Our activities rush is a great way to get new members interested in the team! We showcase ourselves alongside many other school clubs for people to join! - [Volunteering ROCKS | Minnesota Mineral Club](https://team2502.com/2025/09/29/volunteering-rocks-minnesota-mineral-club/) - Over the weekend, we had the chance to volunteer with the Minnesota Mineral Club! It was a great time, we got to help out and see so many interesting rocks! - [Welcome to Talon! New Member Open House](https://team2502.com/2025/09/25/welcome-to-talon-new-member-open-house/) - We had our New Member Open House last Tuesday, September 23rd! This event was full of meeting new people and having fun with our robot! - [Lions Club: Connecting with Sponsors](https://team2502.com/2025/09/24/lions-club-connecting-with-sponsors/) - Lion's Club is a great connection our team made! They are a wonderful example of how we go above and beyond to connect with our community and sponsors! - [IEEE WIE: Words from Women in the Industry ](https://team2502.com/2025/09/21/ieee-wie-words-from-women-in-the-industry/) - We made a ton of great connections at the IEEE WIE event this year! We got the opportunity to talk with several inspiring women in the industry, thank you IEEE! - [Training, Training, and Even More Training!](https://team2502.com/2025/09/18/training-training-and-even-more-training/) - It was the first week of training month, as you can guess, we did quite a bit of training! This week was full of both new and returning faces and a lot of fun! - [Thank You Adavantage Signs!](https://team2502.com/2025/09/09/thank-you-adavantage-signs/) - A while ago, we received what is probably the most unique support from a sponsor yet! Advantage Signs provided us with misprinted signs to use on our robot! - [Happy Holidays❄️⛄!](https://team2502.com/2024/12/24/happy-holidays❄️⛄/) - We love to celebrate the holidays at Talon! This is shown through one of our favorite outreach events, Bots for Tots! By working with the EP mall, we can help! - [Getting Ready for State Fair: Open Room 7](https://team2502.com/2025/08/12/getting-ready-for-state-fair-open-room-7/) - We had a lot to get ready before the State Fair! We needed our presentation done and our robot working for the event. Hopefully we can bring home a blue ribbon! - [Award Winning Robot: State Fair 2025](https://team2502.com/2025/08/29/award-winning-robot-state-fair-2025/) - We had a great time at the state fair! Several members showcased our robot and discussed our team to attendees of the fair. We won an award for our electrical! - [Open Room Reorganization: Open Room 8](https://team2502.com/2025/08/22/open-room-reorganization-open-room-8/) - During this week's open room, we made quite a bit of progress in getting our room cleaned and organized! This room was full of uncovering mysteries and fun! - [Girls Who Code Summer Camp | Week Two](https://team2502.com/2025/08/19/girls-who-code-summer-camp-week-two/) - It was our final week of our Girls Coding Camp, we had a lot to do! We wrapped up our Cybersecurity and Creative Coding units. The week ended with a showcase! - [Girls Who Code Summer Camp | Week One](https://team2502.com/2025/08/13/girls-who-code-summer-camp-week-one/) - We partnered with Girls Who Code to bring a two-week coding summer camp to our community! Team members put together a curriculum and teach it to participants. - [Uncovering UNEARTHED | FLL Kickoff 2025](https://team2502.com/2025/08/06/uncovering-unearthed-fll-kickoff-2025/) - We had our FLL kickoff on Tuesday. It was a fun day filled with learning and legos! We had special guests who helped host this year's event, a past FLL team! - [2025 IEEE Picnic: Thanking our Sponsors](https://team2502.com/2025/07/22/2025-ieee-picnic-thanking-our-sponsors/) - We got the opportunity to demo our robot at the IEEE picnic. This experience allowed us to present to industry professionals and give back to a sponsor! - [Connecting Through Catch: Sparklefest 2025](https://team2502.com/2025/07/08/connecting-through-catch-sparklefest-2025/) - We had a great time at Sparklefest this year! Cronus played catch with tons of event attendees, drawing attention to our area and team. - [Rain or Shine We're on the Grind: Open Room 6](https://team2502.com/2025/07/25/rain-or-shine-were-on-the-grind-open-room-6/) - This week's open room was filled with more lego sorting, drift-sco, and an appearance of our lovely Minnesota weather. No matter what we're ready to have fun! - [Programming Miracles and Lego Kits](https://team2502.com/2025/07/17/programming-miracles-and-lego-kits/) - This open room was made successful by the hard work of our engineering deputies! After hours of hard work they were able to get our robot back up and running! - [Cronus and Chairbot: Summer Rooms 3 and 4](https://team2502.com/2025/07/08/cronus-chairbot-summer-rooms-3-4/) - We had a lot to do during our 3rd and 4th open rooms of the summer! Our main projects were getting Cronus ready for Sparklefest and fixing any issues after. - [Our Second Offseason Open Room!](https://team2502.com/2025/06/25/our-second-offseason-open-room/) - Our second summer open room was a fun day filled with code, closet cleaning, and cats! We were able to make some great progress and meet our head mentor's cat! - [Our First Summer Open Room!](https://team2502.com/2025/06/18/our-first-summer-open-room/) - We just had our first open room of the summer! These are always fun for new team members and working on projects we don't have time for in the season! - [2025 STEM Day: Kicking off Our Offseason!](https://team2502.com/2025/06/17/2025-stem-day-kicking-off-our-offseason/) - This year's STEM Day was a huge success! We hope to have gotten a lot of kids interested in robots. All of our programs were highlighted and demonstrated! - [2025 Season Outreach Summary](https://team2502.com/2025/06/13/2025-season-outreach-summary/) - We worked hard to do a lot of community outreach this season. From cleaning our local park to demoing for events we gave back a wide variety of ways! - [Training Time: Gearing Up for the Season](https://team2502.com/2025/06/07/training-time-gearing-up-for-the-season/) - We focused on getting our team trained on the fundamentals over our offseason! Ensuring members feel confident and prepared for the season is important to us! - [Where We’ve Been, Our Banquet, and Captains](https://team2502.com/2025/06/05/where-weve-been-our-banquet-and-captains/) - Where We’ve Been If you’ve been following our blog posts, you may have noticed that fewer than expected have been coming out. Long story short, we had some unexpected issues with our website preventing us from posting. Thanks to the hard work of our media team, we’ve hopefully resolved this issue. Prepare to see more - [Taking Off to 2025 Rocket City Regional](https://team2502.com/2025/06/09/taking-off-to-rocket-city-regional/) - Why Alabama? The closest second tournament 2502 could get into was more than a thousand miles away by bus - a sixteen-hour drive! Talon packed up our tools, pit, and robot, and drove day and night to reach a large city in northern Alabama, Huntsville. Thank you to our bus buddies, team 3630 Stampede, who - [2025 Ten Thousand Lakes Regional](https://team2502.com/2025/06/11/2025-ten-thousand-lakes-regional/) - 10k History Talon has attended the 10,000 Lakes Regional (10k) for every year possible since 2009. We have been a finalist alliance captain in this tournament twice! We have been in the playoffs each year for over ten years, and similarly, for over ten years. Our Womens Panel is typically hosted at this event! This - [2025 Build Season Days 38-45 (2/9-2/16)](https://team2502.com/2025/02/19/2025-build-season-days-38-45-2-9-2-19/) - Monday 2/10- Viki P. Touchdown on Talon Robotics! Back from our Superbowl weekend, Talon is ready to dive into a Monday! There were business meetings to attend, a robot to troubleshoot, and field elements to be made. To start our “meeting sandwich” as Audrey, one of our leads, calls it, the Media Subteam led by - [2025 Build Season Days 17-24 (1/20-1/26)](https://team2502.com/2025/01/26/2025-build-season-days-17-24-1-20-1-26/) - Monday 1/20 Drivetrains and Deep Climbs - Connor P. Since it was MLK day we could get straight to work, and we started like a rocket! We quickly got our machines running all day to get parts ready, along with starting to get our deep climb attached to our drivetrain! We're moving quickly and are - [2025 Build Season Days 9-16 (1/13-1/19)](https://team2502.com/2025/01/19/2025-build-season-days-9-16-1-13-1-19/) - Monday 1/13 On your marks, get set, CAD! - By Medha G. Welcome back from the weekend! The usual whirr of the CnC during the week was quelled this Monday because this day was a celebration- a milestone in our robot design. That’s right, this Monday was the start of CAD week! Not as exciting - [Robots & Rotini](https://team2502.com/2024/11/17/robots-rotini/) - Sunday, 11/10 Talon Robotics Annual Fundraising Dinner This past weekend, Talon hosted our annual fundraising dinner Robots and Rotini. This is Talon’s annual pasta dinner fundraiser featuring demonstrations of robots from both our FRC (high school) and FTC (middle school) teams, a silent auction, a dinner, and so much more! It is our team’s biggest - [Off Season Competition- East Metro Collaborative Competition](https://team2502.com/2024/11/11/off-season-competition-east-metro-collaborative-competition/) - Saturday, 10/26/24 EMCC was successful for Talon this year. EMCC is an off-season tournament that Talon participates in every year. It is a low-stakes tournament, using last season’s game, crescendo, designed to condition new robotics members to drive or operate a robot on a field with other robots. This allows team members who are new - [HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃🎃🎃!!!](https://team2502.com/2024/10/31/happy-halloween-🎃🎃🎃/) - Saturday (10/12) Harvest to Halloween We attended and demoed at Harvest to Halloween on Saturday, October 12th. Harvest to Halloween is a city of Eden Prairie event where people of all ages gather to celebrate Halloween at Riley Lake Park. There were many children so we had many opportunities to connect with and inspire kids. - [STEM Day with the Girl Scouts](https://team2502.com/2024/08/28/stem-day-with-the-girl-scouts/) - Tuesday (8/27) Talon collaborated once more on a STEM day with the Girl Scout troops in our community! The Eden Prairie School of Dance served as the location for the event. This was our first-ever Inclusivity (our new subteam) event, and it was a huge success. In total, we had about 30 Girl Scouts join - [Girls who Code has Officially Ended!](https://team2502.com/2024/08/26/girls-who-code-has-officially-ended/) - Monday (8/5) - Friday (8/16) Given that this would be our first year holding the camp, the fact that there were roughly ten active participants each day made it a huge success. Web development, data and AI, cybersecurity, P5.js, Python, and Scratch were the topics that the students studied. The girls thoroughly enjoyed discovering new - [The Beginning of the FLL Season](https://team2502.com/2024/08/09/the-beginning-of-the-fll-season/) - Wednesday (8/7) The FIRST Lego League season (FLL) for students in grades 4-6 starts today! In order to get to know one another and view the 2024–25 season game video, four teams got together at the EPHS East Commons for their season kickoff. All teams, comprising roughly forty kids, couldn't wait to get going on - [Off Season Open Room Day 1](https://team2502.com/2024/07/16/off-season-open-room-day-1/) - Wednesday 6/26 Summer starts when Open Room does We’re back! We had first open room this summer. After an impromptu room change, Talon is back and ready to begin doing summer projects. After recent changes on our team, the room was bustling with new excitement about what’s in store this summer. During this time, Talon's - [Off-Season Events- Happy July Fourth!](https://team2502.com/2024/07/16/off-season-events-happy-july-fourth/) - Sunday, July 3rd Sparklefest! Sparklefest is an annual festival on July 3rd where many people come to celebrate. We decided to demonstrate our robots Cronus and Disco as part of the festivities this year. In around two weeks, we managed to plan transportation for the robot, gathered around 25 volunteers, and organized with the event - [2023-2024 End of the Season Banquet](https://team2502.com/2024/06/05/2023-2024-end-of-the-season-banquet/) - Thursday (5/16) After hundreds of hours poured into our 2023-2024 season, it finally came to an end. To celebrate all of the hard work done by our teammates and mentors, we hosted a banquet with around 130 attendees to highlight everything that we accomplished. The banquet was filled with amazing food and a review of memories - [End-of-Year Talon Picnic ](https://team2502.com/2024/05/31/end-of-year-talon-picnic/) - Tuesday (5/28) Today we held our first team builder of the off-season. Due to the fact that school is ending this month, we thought it would be fitting to hold a picnic team builder. This is a way to introduce new people to the team, provide an opportunity for existing members to hang out, and, - [Girl Scouts Demo](https://team2502.com/2024/05/17/girl-scouts-demo/) - Written By: Audrey T Saturday (5/11) When a local Girl Scout troop reached out to us asking for support in earning some robotics-based badges we knew this was something we wanted to do. Our Outreach subteam worked hard in order to ensure we had the best event possible. Over the course of a few weeks, - [Freeziac Fundraiser](https://team2502.com/2024/05/13/freeziac-fundraiser/) - Saturday (5/11) As the robotics season ends, our team ended with a fundraiser at Freeziac! Freeziac is a local store selling self-serve frozen yogurt. This was a great way to unwind after a busy season, with our teammates bonding over ice cream. Of course, we can't have a Freeziac fundraiser without our annual competition for - [2024 Build Season Days 81-88 (3/26-3/31)](https://team2502.com/2024/04/01/2024-build-season-days-81-88-3-26-3-31/) - Monday 3/25 Pancakes & Snowmen! In open room, instead of beginning building, we went outside to go play in the snow! After many attempts, we ended up with 2 large, slightly misshapen snowmen and a lot of snow on our clothes. Afterwards, we decided that it was probably best to go back inside and do - [2024 Build Season Days 73-80 (3/18-3/26)](https://team2502.com/2024/03/29/2024-build-season-days-73-80-3-18-3-26/) - Monday 3/18 Practice & Pizza Usually, Mondays are one of our busiest days in the open room. Instead, with most people being away for spring break, today was quite sluggish. Work on our robot continued as usual, just with fewer people. A lot of the work didn't require an abundance of hands to complete, and - [2024 Build Season Days 65-72 (3/11-3/17)](https://team2502.com/2024/03/20/2024-build-season-days-65-72-3-11-3-17/) - Wednesday 3/13- Medha G. Getting Locked in Today was our first open room back from our first season tournament in Sedalia, Missouri - and we were locked in. Even though Sedalia, Missouri didn’t work out exactly how we wanted it to, the important thing was that we knew exactly what to do. Next, our sights - [Central Missouri Regional Day 4: The End of the Begining](https://team2502.com/2024/03/18/central-missouri-regional-day-4-the-end-of-the-begining/) - Today consisted of our final qualification matches, finals, and awards. Qualification Matches Match 9 Match 9 started out really successful with our alliance scoring 31 points in auto! We were looking really good, scoring multiple in the speaker throughout the match. Cronus attempted a climb, but yet again we ran out of time. We ended - [2024 Central Missouri Regional Day 2](https://team2502.com/2024/03/07/2024-central-missouri-regional-day-2/) - Written By: Dylan C Practice Day The entirety of Thursday is considered to be used as a practice day. Once all teams were loaded into the pits, practice matches swiftly began at noon. Match 1 Our First practice match was quite simple. On the red alliance, Talon was paired with 1706 Ratchet Rockers and 5809 - [Central Missouri Regional Day 3: The Qualification Matches Begin!](https://team2502.com/2024/03/08/central-missouri-regional-day-3-the-qualification-matches-begin/) - Written By: Daniel N The Beginning of The End Today was filled with success, defeat, learning experiences, and most importantly fun! Take a look at our first competition day at the Central Missouri Regional! Qualification Matches Match 1 Our first match of the day, although a loss, was a huge success. From technical difficulties to - [2024 Central Missouri Tournament Day 1](https://team2502.com/2024/03/07/2024-central-missouri-tournament-day-1/) - Written By: Dylan C There Ain't No Mountain High Enough! Starting bright and early in the morning, 32 Talon team members embarked on a long expedition to Sedalia, Missouri. Our bus ride was a lot of fun for everyone involved. After a short mishap, Talon left Minnesota and started a full day of adventure. People - [2024 Build Season Days 57-64 (3/4-3/11)](https://team2502.com/2024/03/06/2024-build-season-days-57-64-3-4-3-11/) - Monday 3/4 - Dylan L, Manas P As we kicked off the open room, we had an important decision to make: to decide the batteries’ name theme. Possible themes included pasta shapes and US presidents, but we ultimately decided on naming them after types of pasta. As we continued the open room, we noticed older - [2024 Build Season Days 52-56 (2/26-3/3)](https://team2502.com/2024/03/04/2024-build-season-days-52-56-2-26-3-3/) - Monday 2/26 As our exciting trip to Missouri draws near, we have a lot of work to wrap up! We worked on our defense robot, adding some finishing touches to ensure things were where they should be. We also wrapped up our work on our bumpers, making them pretty and presentable. We also had a group working - [2024 Build Season Days 45-51 (2/19 - 2/25)](https://team2502.com/2024/02/26/2024-build-season-days-45-51-2-19-2-25/) - Written By: Medha G, Dylan L, Charlotte S, Ben R, Dylan C Monday 2/19 - President’s Day On Monday the majority of the team had a day off. Of course, the robotics room was open for those willing to come on their day off from school. On Monday we mainly worked on bumpers while celebrating - [2024 Build Season Days 38-44 (2/12 - 2/18)](https://team2502.com/2024/02/19/2024-build-season-days-38-44/) - Written By: Medha G, Charlotte S, Ben R, Dylan C Monday 2/12 The open room was packed as we kicked yet another robotics week off. Many of our members were scattered about trying to finish small tasks on the robot, such as reassembling the intake. Today was also a day for teaching freshmen, as the - [2024 Build Season Days 31-37 (2/5 - 2/11)](https://team2502.com/2024/02/11/2024-build-season-days-31-37-2-5-2-11/) - Written by: Charlotte S, Medha G, Dylan L, Dylan C Monday 2/5 As we kicked another school week off, the open room was filled with programming and team bonding. Our team prepares for Sunday's driver's test by playing a team Blooket, with the majority of the freshmen rushing to win the game. It was a - [2024 Build Season Days 24-30 (1/29 - 2/4)](https://team2502.com/2024/02/04/2024-build-season-days-24-30-1-29-2-4/) - Written By: Manas P, Charlotte S, Medha G, Ben R, Dylan C Monday 1/29 As we struggle to stay awake at the beginning of the week, the team is continuing to work hard on the robot. One big thing that was going on during the open room was being done by Timothy, our manufacturing lead. - [2024 Build Season Days 17-23 (1/22 - 1/28)](https://team2502.com/2024/01/28/2024-build-season-days-17-23-1-22-1-28/) - Written by: Medha G, Dylan C, Charlotte S, Ben R, Dylan L Monday 1/22 BAM BAM BAM BAM, that is how open room today started. This was the sound of a few students trying to hammer hex shafts into wheels to broaden the hole. Even though that wasn’t the most exciting part of the open - [2024 Build Season Days 9-16 (1/15 - 1/21)](https://team2502.com/2024/01/22/2024-build-season-days-9-16-1-15-1-21/) - Written By: Dylan C, Medha G. Monday 1/15 Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! For Talon the team decided that we needed another room, so instead of taking the day off, we used Monday as a way to cut plates on our CNC machine. The team listened to music and we got to eat a - [2024 Build Season Days 1-8 (1/7 - 1/14)](https://team2502.com/2024/01/15/2024-build-season-days-1-8-1-7-1-14/) - Written By Dylan C, Medha G 1/7 The Day After Kickoff Being a Sunday afternoon, everyone was anxious to start work on prototyping the assigned subsystems they received on the kickoff. Starting at noon the party was slowly getting started. As Bob Marley said best, “We’re jammin’ ” and jamming we were. We had a - [2024 Build Season Kickoff (1/6/2024)](https://team2502.com/2024/01/15/2024-build-season-kickoff-1-6-2024/) - The Beginning Today, we began our 2024 Build Season. We started at 8 AM where we prepared for Kickoff by setting up the South Commons area for our team to collaborate, and shortly had our traditional annual pancake breakfast, as our team began to arrive and get prepared for a long day of strategizing and - [Inspiring Bots for Tots 2023](https://team2502.com/2023/12/18/inspiring-bots-for-tots-2023/) - Bots for Tots, an annual event held at the Eden Prairie mall, it took place on December 17 this past Sunday. The purpose of the event was to do two things: Raise money and toys for underserved kids in Eden Prairie, as well as connect with kids throughout the twin cities area about FIRST and - [Talon Visits Motocrane!](https://team2502.com/2023/12/17/2023-motocrane-company-demo/) - By Charlotte S Robotics team members went to Motocrane for a demo/tour. Motocrane is a company that produces high-tech camera cranes and arms for your car. 10 team members were honored to tour this company on Wednesday, the 29th for around an hour. Our team members had a great time asking questions and learning about - [Trials & Tribulations of EMCC 2023](https://team2502.com/2023/11/28/trials-tribulations-of-emcc-2023/) - Written by Nathan R Event Summary Being yet another offseason event for the team, everyone at Talon was super excited to see last year's robot compete against our other high school friends. This event was somewhat different than other tournaments as it saw the team enter a "skirmish tournament". This means the team would enter - [2023 Annual Robots and Rotini](https://team2502.com/2023/11/29/talon-robotics-annual-robots-and-rotini/) - A Fun Evening On Sunday, November 5th, Talon held our annual Robots & Rotini fundraising dinner at EPHS. It was a successful event, raising almost $5000 for the organization. The evening was jam-packed with demonstrations from our robot and FTC teams as well as hands-on LEGO robot building & programming opportunities for elementary-age students. Thank - [MRI 2023: Reaching Finals with First Place Alliance](https://team2502.com/2023/10/22/mri-2023-reaching-finals-with-first-place-alliance/) - Written By: Audrey T A Great Day MRI (or Minnesota Robotics Invitational) is an off-season competition hosted by our friends the FireBears. At this competition, teams are in alliances with two other high school teams and compete against another alliance with last year’s Charged Up Game. Our team had an eventful MRI full of challenges - [2023 Minnesota State Capitol STEM Day](https://team2502.com/2023/04/20/2023-minnesota-state-capitol-stem-day/) - Last Wednesday, April 12 2023, four students and three mentors from our team went to St Paul for STEM Day at the Capitol 2023. - [10,000 Lakes Regional: Playoff Matches 2023](https://team2502.com/2023/04/12/10000-lakes-regional-playoff-matches-2023/) - Event Summary Written By: Daniel N Qualification Matches 8 & 9 On Saturday, at our 10,000 Lakes Regional, we played a total of 7 matches. Our first two matches were qualification matches(75 and 82). In match 75 we won 119-74, earning us 3 ranking points. In match 82 we were teamed up with 2052 KnightKrawlers(the - [10,000 Lakes Regional: Practice Day](https://team2502.com/2023/04/07/10000-lakes-regional-practice-day/) - Event Summary Located in the Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota. Talon traveled to share our newly designed robot with the rest of the FRC community. This Post is part of a series of three posts dedicated to our success at 10K. Enjoy! With the 10,000 Lakes Regional Starting on Thursday, everyone at Talon Located at Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota. Talon traveled to share our newly designed robot with the rest of the FRC community. This Post is part of a series of three posts dedicated to our success at 10K. Enjoy! - [10K Regional: Qual matches 2023](https://team2502.com/2023/04/08/10k-regional-qual-matches-2023/) - With the 10,000 Lakes Regional Starting on Thursday, everyone at Talon was ready to see our newly improved robot in action. - [2023 Build Season Days 52-58 (3/20-26/2023)](https://team2502.com/2023/03/28/2023-build-season-days-52-58-3-20-26-2023/) - The Adventures of Spring Break: Revenge of the Practice Monday-20th Spring break officially started for our school district, but that doesn't mean Talon isn't hard at work! At 3:30 room opened and the team began to work on the robot. Our main work was on making an auto. While not done by the end of - [2023 Build Season Days 45-51 (3/13-19/2023)](https://team2502.com/2023/03/22/2023-build-season-days-45-51-3-13-19-2023/) - We Did It! This past week Talon finished building our robot. This weekly summary tells the story of us finishing it along with the team practicing. Monday-13th With most parts made in the previous week, this week's goal was to have a fully completed robot before the week was over. Monday saw the team having - [2023 Build Season Days 40-44 (3/6-10/2023)](https://team2502.com/2023/03/13/2023-build-season-days-40-44-3-6-10-2023/) - Authors: Dylan C, Timothy M, Isaac M, Al A. Week Summary: Monday-6th Monday was a day off for the entire team. No subteam met and the room was canceled! Tuesday-7th Tuesday was the team’s first day back since Duluth. While the robot was being redesigned, members of the team were busy repairing our robot and - [NORTHERN LIGHTS REGIONAL Day 3 3/4/2023](https://team2502.com/2023/03/09/northern-lights-regional-day-3/) - Attack of the DECC Just like Friday morning, every team member woke up at different times to have breakfast. Once 7:30 hit everyone moved over to the DECC to get through the rest of our qualification matches. Below is a summary of Saturday: Qualification Matches Qualification match 7 The bell rang and our auto worked - [NORTHERN LIGHTS REGIONAL Day 2 3/3/23](https://team2502.com/2023/03/04/northern-lights-regional-day-2-3-3-23/) - 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 hotel as the cool Lake - [NORTHERN LIGHTS REGIONAL Day 1 3/2/23](https://team2502.com/2023/03/03/northern-lights-regional-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 sleep for our practice matches - [2023 Build Season Days 32-39 (2/19-26/2023)](https://team2502.com/2023/03/01/2023-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 our major subsystems for the - [2023 Build Season Days 26-31 (2/13-18/2023)](https://team2502.com/2023/02/20/2023-build-season-days-26-32-2-13-19-2023/) - 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 With another week ahead of the - [2023 Build Season Days 21-25 (2/6-10/2023)](https://team2502.com/2023/02/15/2023-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 Sunday we started to attach - [2023 Build Season Days 16-20 (1/30-2/3/2023)](https://team2502.com/2023/02/06/2023-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 line was formed and the - [2023 Build Season Days 11-15 (1/23-28/2023)](https://team2502.com/2023/01/29/2023-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 the team got to work. - [2023 Build Season Days 6-10 (1/17-20/2023)](https://team2502.com/2023/01/21/2023-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 assembled in the open room - [2023 Build Season Day 5 (1/16/23)](https://team2502.com/2023/01/17/2023-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. Experiments and Prototypes A popular prototype - [2023 Build Season Day 4 (1/11/23)](https://team2502.com/2023/01/12/2023-build-season-day-4/) - 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 testing out ideas with spare - [2023 Build Season Day 3 (1/10/23)](https://team2502.com/2023/01/11/2023-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 to the prototyping process, while - [2023 Build Season Day 2 (1/9/23)](https://team2502.com/2023/01/10/2023-build-season-day-2/) - 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 types of wheels. In this - [2023 Build Season Kickoff (1/7/23)](https://team2502.com/2023/01/08/2023-build-season-kickoff-1-7-2023/) - 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 with mentors & a FLL - [2023 Build Season Day 1 (1/8/23)](https://team2502.com/2023/01/09/2023-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 robot. We were able to - [Open Room And Dodgeball 12/16-18/22](https://team2502.com/2022/12/19/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 start off the team had - [FTC Banquet](https://team2502.com/2022/12/10/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 season. All six newly created - [Bots For Tots 2022](https://team2502.com/2022/12/07/bots-for-tots-2/) - 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 more kids and parents we - [MMR 2022](https://team2502.com/2022/11/29/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 to get to the finish - [Friday Fun with FTC!!! (11/11/22)](https://team2502.com/2022/11/16/friday-fun-with-ftc-11-11-22/) - Author: Timothy M The FTC Incursion Today during the open room we had half of the FTC teams that we mentor come into the room to get some last-minute work done on their robots before their competition the next day. They worked tirelessly to get everything patched up and get as much practice as they - [Robots & Rotini 2022](https://team2502.com/2022/11/10/robots-rotini-2022/) - Authors: Etnik H, Dylan C Event Summary On November 5th Talon was finally able to have its biggest fundraiser of the year Robots & Rotini! Below is a summary of pasta, games, and more! FTC Practice and Demos All of the Eden Prairie FTC teams came to Robots & Rotini to practice and hone their - [Monday Night Lights. (Open Room, 11/7/22)](https://team2502.com/2022/11/10/monday-night-lights-open-room-11-7-22/) - Event Summary Business meetings On Monday the 7th, Talon decided to add a second open room for each week. From now the team will be having two open rooms per week until the season begins. Today the team got a lot done. To start the day off, the team had its weekly marketing meeting. At - [MRI 2022](https://team2502.com/2022/10/21/mri-2022/) - Authors: Dylan C, Anirudh R Event Summary MRI is a local off-season event, in Roseville, consisting of 36 teams. MRI, being one of the last events of the 2022 off-season, was another excellent event for newer members to get their first competition experience. The team had a great time and looks forward to wrapping up - [Rookie Camps, and Open Room](https://team2502.com/2022/10/08/rookie-camps-and-open-room/) - Authors: Dylan C, Paul O Today, Monday the 3rd, is the start of rookie camps for incoming team members. We were able to start the day with a presentation from Neel. The presentation was about team structure and a Captain's duties. This led to a talk about the roles of team members and future opportunities - [Homecoming Game](https://team2502.com/2022/10/07/homecoming-game/) - Hoco Game and T-shirt Cannon On Friday the 30th Talon was invited to shoot our own T-shirt cannon at our homecoming game. Talon quickly assembled a few volunteers and everyone started to fold t-shirts to shoot at the game. When the day of the game arrived, the team grabbed the cannon and a box full - [Open Room 9/29/2022](https://team2502.com/2022/09/29/open-room-9-29-2022/) - Drive Train Repair During EMCC, we had various drivetrain issues. So today we decided to tackle them. One of the motors that had been powering the robot had a bent shaft and was rendered unserviceable. The defective motor was swapped for a fresh, working motor that should eliminate the lack of power and steering agility - [EMCC 2022](https://team2502.com/2022/09/25/emcc-2022/) - Event Summary Being one the first off-season events in our area, the team was super excited to sign up for the EMCC. EMCC is a great event to let newer members try out driving and operating our robot in a competitive setting. Throughout the day everyone was able to try out some aspect of playing - ["The Open Room Strikes Back" (9/14/22)](https://team2502.com/2022/09/17/the-open-room-strikes-back-9-14-22/) - Authors: Andre N, Dylan C Open-Room Updates Today, Wednesday the 14th, Talon got back together to work on various projects. Below is a summary of everything that we did today: Demo Bot Over the summer some team members worked on designing a demo bot that would be used at events to show off our team. Currently, - [FTC Kickoff!](https://team2502.com/2022/09/12/ftc-kickoff/) - Event Summary This year Eden Prairie's middle school didn't have a head mentor to run the show. Hearing about the news, Talon stepped in and saved the day. Revamping the FTC system in the process, Talon invited everyone who was interested in the new season into the tech room for the season's kickoff. The team - [MN State Fair 2022](https://team2502.com/2022/08/28/mn-state-fair-2022/) - Millions of people gather around for the annual Minnesota State fair. This year, Talon participated in two of the twelve days of the fair. Talon participated in this fair continuing the rich tradition of inspiring people with FIRST and robotics. People were thrilled to see our robot perform. The team was humbled to win the - [2022 FLL Kickoff](https://team2502.com/2022/08/10/2022-fll-kickoff/) - Event Summary What is more fun than witnessing a bunch of kids gravitate towards STEM? Nothing is what our team would say. Talon had its FLL kickoff on Friday the 2nd. Like always, young Talons had a lot of fun. Many elementary kids were excited about this year's challenge and could not wait to start - [IEEE (7/21/22)](https://team2502.com/2022/07/25/ieee-event/) - Event Summary This Thursday our team had the incredible opportunity to present our robot at IEEE. The event has a long and wonderful history. Annually, our team partners with a neighboring FIRST robotics team to present our robots to companies and their employees. This year we were joined by the Technocrats (2239) to present our - [Fireworks & Robots (7/3/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/07/11/fireworks-robots/) - Event Summary On July 3rd, The city of Eden Prairie started off its independence day celebration with a fun carnival-like event. The city invited us to have a demo at the said event, so the team agreed. At the demo, the team greeted many families with Cerberus shooting and members ready to show off Talon. - [Open House Fun (6/25/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/06/26/open-house-fun-6-25-2022/) - Event Summary On June 25th Talon was finally able to do its famous team open house. At the event, the team invited our community to our school’s commons. At the commons the team was able to show off Cerberus and Orion. Talon was also able to introduce FLL, FTC, FTC to other students in our - [Weekend Cleaning (6/11-6/12 2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/06/12/weekend-cleaning-6-11-6-12-2022/) - Weekend Cleaning Over the weekend Talon had seven hours to clean its room. During that time the team was able to clear out its very cluttered room storage. Multiple members organized different components of our room. By the end of week, the team was able to finally see its wooden counters again. Now Talon will - [MyBookDay (5/16/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/05/18/mybookday-5-16-2022/) - Team Updates On Monday. May 16th, Talon Robotics participated in Eden Prairie School’s MyBookDay event. The team was able to have a concise demo where Dylan and Paul discussed the benefits of reading to the district’s 1st graders. The entire demo was quite short Neel and Nolan were driving the robot around, spinning and shooting - [MSHSL Championship (5/6 & 5/7 2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/05/08/mshsl-championship-5-6-5-7-2022/) - Event Summary These last two days Talon participated in its final event for the Rapid React season. The team was able to load in the robot on Friday, and use Cerberus on Saturday. Below is a summary of the entire event: Qualification Matches The team had to wake up bright and early on Saturday to - [2022 Build Season Day 63 (5/3/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/05/03/2022-build-season-day-63-5-3-2022/) - Team Updates Today was another weekly team meeting for Talon. With the season ending the team didn't have too much to talk about, but there were some updates. Below is a summary of the entire meeting: The captains started the meeting by discussing the captains applications. So far everyone who has submitted a form has - [2022 Build Season Day 62 (5/1/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/05/02/2022-build-season-day-61-5-1-2022/) - Open-Room Updates With our team’s mock field already set up, the team wanted to get extra drive practice. So, today was all about finetuning our limelight and trying out new movies. Our open room started fairly early as the drivers wanted as much time as possible to practice. We turned on the robot and drove - [2022 Build Season Day 61 (4/30/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/05/02/2022-build-season-day-61-4-30-2022/) - Open-Room Updates Today was a very exciting day for Talon as the team got to practice at Mura Field. The day started early for everyone who attended the event. The field opened at nine, so team members arrived early to help unload the trailer. It was a rainy day, so team members rushed the robot - [2022 Build season Day 60 (4/29/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/29/2022-build-season-day-60-4-29-2022/) - Open-Room Updates Today was the day for talon to fix everything with its robot. With Thursday leading to a broken motor, the team needed to fix the broken motor on the turret. So straight away the team got to work on its motor. It took some time, but the team eventually fixed its motor and - [2022 Build Season Day 59 (4/28/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/29/2022-build-season-day-59/) - Authors: Sujeeth T, Dylan C Open-Room Updates Today was a great day for Talon. The team was able to work on the robot and test out multiple features. However, we found a small problem with the robot when we were testing PIDs. The Fabrication team found a problem with the flywheel that was added onto - [2022 Build Season Day 58 (4/26/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/26/2022-build-season-day-58/) - Team Updates After a long five days in Texas, the team reunited once again to have its weekly team meeting. Below is a summary of everything the team talked about in its weekly meeting. With the world competition over, the team discussed everything at the event. The captains lead a pros and cons list for - [FIRST World Championship Day 4](https://team2502.com/2022/04/25/first-world-championship-day-4/) - Author: Yash D Day Summary Today was the final day of the FIRST Worlds Championships. For Talon that meant cheering on the other teams. The day started off with Alliance Selections. Unfortunately Talon did not get picked by any other team to be in an alliance. The team still had a very successful competition. We - [FIRST World Championship Day 3](https://team2502.com/2022/04/25/first-world-championship-day-3/) - Day Summary Today was the third day of the FIRST world championship. It was another day of qualification matches. Once again, the drive team headed to the venue earlier than the rest of the team. The day started with match 65 and Talon was playing in match 67 so we tried to leave the hotel - [FIRST World Championship Day 2](https://team2502.com/2022/04/22/first-world-championship-day-2/) - Day Summary Today was the second day of the FIRST world championship. Today was all about qualification matches for everyone in the entire venue. For Talon the team spent the day playing its matches and scouting other teams. Below is a summary of the team matches and day: The day started out at different times - [FIRST World Championship Day 1](https://team2502.com/2022/04/20/first-world-championship-day-1/) - Authors: Vedanth J, Dylan C Day Summary Today was the first day of the FIRST Robotics World Championship in Houston, Texas. We went to Houston in two separate groups. The smaller of the two was the drive team who went on a shorter flight as they needed to arrive in Houston as fast as possible. - [2022 Build Season Day 57 (4/17/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/18/2022-build-season-day-57-4-17-2022/) - Authors" Yash D, Dylan C Open-Room Updates Today was the last day for Talon to practice with its robot. Even with the major holiday some team members were able to sneak away, and get some much needed work in. below is an summary of everything the team did: The team was able to make some small - [2022 Build Season Day 56 (4/16/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/16/2022-build-season-day-56-4-16-2022/) - Authors: Yash D, Dylan C Open-Room Updates Today was the last Saturday before the world championship in Houston. Today was all about fine tuning our robot. The team mostly worked on fixing our autonomous code, and finetuning our intake.The entire open-room was a great time for the team to get some much needed practice in. - [2022 Build Season Day 55 (4/14/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/14/2022-build-season-day-55/) - Authors: Reese F, Dylan C Open-Room Updates Today in open room we did some repairs to our robot. During the 10k tournament our robot suffered some damage to its intake and battery box. Riley L fixed the intake and used some screws to secure the bearings on the intake in place so they cannot slip - [2022 Build Season Day 54 (4/13/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/13/2022-build-season-day-54/) - Open-Room Updates Today was Talon’s first day back in its room since Minnesota’s 10,000 Lakes regional. The team was very happy to get our hands on the robot as there was some fixes that needed to be done. Below is everything the team did today: The most important problem the team fixed today was replacing the - [2022 Build Season Day 53 (4/12/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/13/2022-build-season-day-53-4-12-2022/) - Team Updates Like every Tuesday Talon had its weekly team meeting. With our last meeting being two weeks ago the team had a lot to cover. Below is a list of everything the team covered: After our last match our robot was damaged a lot. Its intake was partly destroyed and the battery mount needed - [Minnesota's 10,000 Lakes Regional Day 3 (4/9/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/10/minnesotas-10000-lakes-regional-day-3/) - Day Summary Today was the third-day Talon participated in Minnesota’s 10,000 Lakes Regional Competition. Below is a summary of everything that happened that day: With Saturday being the last day of the event the team was very excited for the end of the qualification matches. The entire team didn't scout many matches as the day - [Minnesota's 10,000 Lakes Regional Day 1 (4/7/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/07/minnesota-10000-lakes-regional-day-1-4-7-2022/) - 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 still at school taking finals. The - [Minnesota's 10,000 Lakes Regional Day 2 (4/8/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/08/minnesotas-10000-lakes-regional-day-2-4-8-2022/) - Day Summary Today was the second-day Talon robotics participated in Minnesota's 10,000 Lakes Regional tournament. Below is every match summary along with some other important information: Today Talon was able to take a bus to 10K. This led to the team having more members joining us. With a larger group of people, Talon was able - [2022 Build Season Day 52 (4/5/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/06/2022-build-season-day-52-4-5-2022/) - Team Updates Every Tuesday the team has its weekly team meeting. At this team meeting the team discussed the following information: 10,000 Lakes Regional With 10K in less than one day the team is ready. Just like our last event in Duluth every team member is expected to wear this year’s shirt on Friday and - [2022 Build Season Day 51 (4/4/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/04/2022-build-season-day-51/) - Open-Room Updates Today at the open-room Talon was very busy, but overall it was a very good day. Below you will see a short summary of the day. For starters the team had a chance to redo its pit interview, so many members joined us to prepare for the online meeting. When the meeting started - [2022 Build Season Day 50 (4/1/22)](https://team2502.com/2022/04/02/2022-build-season-day-50-4-1-22/) - Open-Room Updates Today at the open room Talon was very busy. The room started off with the team assembling the Field. However the team wanted a larger scale field so for the first hour of the room team members were rolling parts back and forth. After we finished building the field the team all split - [2022 Build Season Day 49 (3/30/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/03/30/2022-build-season-day-49/) - Open-Room Updates Today at the open-room the team didn't have much to do. Usually we plan to test out the robot, but we did not have access to the area we usually set up our field. So the team worked on everything we could do. For a couple of team members they worked on attaching - [2022 Build Season Day 48 (3/29/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/03/29/2022-build-season-day-48-3-29-2022/) - Team updates Like every Tuesday, Talon had its weekly team meeting. Below you will see a list of everything the team talked about. With 10K seven days away the team is preparing for the event. If you are wanting to attend please head to Slack to register on the SignUpGenius. You will need to fill - [2022 Build Season Day 47 (3/28/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/03/28/2022-build-season-day-47-3-28-2022/) - Team Updates Today at the open the team did a lot. After all the team has a little more than a week to prepare for the event. below you will se the everything notable that the team did today. For starters the team started printing the mount for the RSL. The team designed the entire - [2022 Build Season Days 37-46 (3/18-3/27)](https://team2502.com/2022/03/27/2022-build-season-days-37-46-3-18-3-27/) - Spring Break Summary Over the last week Talon was able to have its usual open-rooms. With most team members on vacation we were able to get a lot done with the robot. Below you will see a day by day summary of the break. These are meant to be each day's blog. The team decided - [2022 Build Season Day 36 (3/17/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/03/17/2022-build-season-day-36-3-17-2022/) - Team Updates Today Talon had a lot of team members in the open-room, so we were able to get a lot done. For a couple of students they worked on the robot’s climber poles. Others in the open-room worked on the tools organization. Just like earlier in the season the tool cupboard is somewhat organized - [2022 Build Season Day 35 (3/15/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/03/15/2022-build-season-day-35-3-15-2022/) - Team Meeting Today was Talon’s weekly Tuesday team meeting. At the said meeting we discussed the following information: Talon will be participating in a local outreach event TreeHouse. This event will target homeless youth in our community. We will be able to show off our robot and introduce STEM into those who come visit us. - [2022 Build Season Day 34 (3/14/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/03/14/2022-build-season-day-34-3-14-2022/) - Day Summary Today was not a busy day for Talon as we didn't have many things to do. While building another robot we need a lot of new parts, so today we were waiting for new pieces to arrive. However this does not mean we did not do anything. Today the team worked on the - [2022 Build Season Day 33 (3/10/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/03/10/2022-build-season-day-33-3-10-2022/) - Open-Room Updates Today was a good day for Talon as we didn't have many urgent tasks at hand. This allowed the team to teach new skills to newer members. Today we were very lucky to have an alumni join us in the open-room. The alumni was able to teach some new skills in Java. It - [Northern Lights Day 4 (3/5/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/03/05/northern-lights-day-4-3-5-2022/) - Summary Of The Day Today was our final day At Northern lights. The entire team had loads of fun throughout the day, so let's get into the summary. Seventh Match In our first match of the day. We didn't have the greatest of luck. Our robot performed well in the first half of the round - [Northern Lights Day 3 (3/4/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/03/04/northern-lights-day-3-3-4-2022/) - Summary Of The Day Today was the second day that the team was participating in Minnesota's regional FRC event, Northern Lights. Today we played in six of our nine matches. First Match In the first match we played we were still working out some of our kinks. Unfortunately our team lost the match because we - [Northern Lights Day 2 (3/3/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/03/04/northern-lights-day-2-3-3-2022/) - Summary Of The Day Today was quite a day for Talon as we had our practice matches. In total we participated in three main matches and a couple of other test matches. At the main matches we were able to learn a lot from our robot and the game. In the first match we had - [Northern Lights Day 1 (3/2/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/03/02/northern-lights-day-1-3-2-2022/) - Team Updates Today Talon didn't have its open room as we were traveling. Fortunately the team got to the hotel in one piece. As of now the team is getting some well needed rest after their long day of travel. The Bus ride to Duluth went really smoothly and the Technocrats were an amazing partner - [2022 Build Season Day 32 (3/1/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/03/01/2022-build-season-day-32-3-1-2022/) - Team updates Today was the weekly team meeting. As you may know the team is going to Duluth. The bus that will be taking the majority of the team will be leaving tomorrow at 5:30pm. It is recommended to come at least thirty minutes early so we can load the bus on time. The team - [2022 Build Season Day 31 (2/28/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/28/2022-build-season-day-31-2-28-2022/) - Finalizing The Robot Today was a productive day for talon. We worked on soldering some of the final electronics to the main power supply. We also worked on cable management for the robot. In order for the climber to properly work it was necessary for the wires to be away from the climber. So, some - [2022 Build Season Day 30 (2/24/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/24/2022-build-season-day-30-2-24-2022/) - Robot & Team News Today was a busy day for Talon as many members went to the open room. Because we had many members that showed up we were able to get a lot done. Team members worked on replacing wheels on the drive train. We decided to do this because the old wheels were - [2022 Build Season Day 29 (2/23/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/23/2022-build-season-day-29-2-23-2022/) - Team updates Today we had our regularly scheduled open room. At the open room team members started work on attaching the bumpers onto the robot. As of now the bumpers still need work but we made a lot of progress. In other news a few members started building new motors that arrived today. Tomorrow the - [2022 Build Season Day 28 (2/22/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/22/2022-build-season-day-28-2-22-2022/) - Travel Update Instead of a team meeting the team had a travel meeting for the upcoming duluth. At the meeting which took place online we discussed the requirements for the trip. If you were not there you can check Slack for more details. If you have any questions regarding the trip, reach out to a mentor - [2022 Build Season Day 27 (2/19/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/19/2022-build-season-day-27-2-19-2022/) - Robot Updates Today was a longer open room which is very good for the robot and the team. Today we worked on putting grease on the drive train. We also started finalizing the electronics for the robot. As of now the robot is getting very close to being finished. Overall the open room went very - [2022 Build Season Day 26 (2/17/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/17/2022-build-season-day-26-2-17-2022/) - Robot Goodness Today during the open room team members continued to work on robot. In particular we worked on the battery mount and other parts. Because we have Friday off many team members were showing up to todays open room. This was very beneficial for the entire team as we were able to make many - [2022 Build Season Day 25 (2/16/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/17/2022-build-season-day-25-2-16-2022/) - Authors: Paul O’Connell, Dylan Curry Open Room + Robot News Today at talon we worked on the climber subsystem. We installed the pistons for the articulated climbing arms. We tested them on the climber on the climber structure. This showed us that we tilt too much when hanging. This lowered the maximum reach making the - [2022 Build Season Day 24 (2/15/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/15/2022-build-season-day-24-2-15-2022/) - Authors: Dylan Curry, Kenny Nguyen Robot Updates In-take Progress on the in-take continues after the 3D printer was all done with the parts we needed to continue the build. We have the members hammering in the pieces. Battery We also have 5 new Interstate batteries and had members install leads. After some charging these new - [2022 Build Season Day 23 (2/14/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/15/2022-build-season-day-23-2-14-2022/) - Open-room Goodness Today was another busy and productive day for talon. Today the team continued to work on the practice bot. However today was somewhat difficult as we worked on mounting pieces onto the robot. Part of this task requires members to get parts in the right spot. This is easier said than done when - [2022 Build Season Day 21-22 (2/10/2022-2/11/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/12/2022-build-season-day-21-22-2-10-2022-2-11-2022/) - Updates On Sub-teams The last two days were both very busy days for Talon. We had our regular meetings and open rooms. Yesterday the team had their regularly scheduled programming meeting. At the meeting they continued to work on their individual projects. They also talked about merging the code with the main branch. This means - [2022 Build Season Day 19 (2/8/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/08/2022-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 real robot. We have started - [2022 Build Season Day 20 (2/9/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/10/2022-build-season-day-20-2-9-2022/) - 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 are wanting to make another - [2022 Build Season Day 18 (2/7/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/07/2022-build-season-day-18-3-7-2022/) - 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 able to do that with - [2022 Build Season Day 17 (2/3/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/04/2022-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 able to find a sprocket - [2022 Build Season Day 16 (2/2/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/02/2022-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 the room but we mostly - [2022 Build Season Day 14 (1/31/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/01/31/2022-build-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 comp bot and measured the - [2022 Build Season Day 15 (2/1/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/02/02/2022-build-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 who wants to sign up - [2022 Build Season Day 11 (1/18/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/01/22/2022-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 the meeting we all decided - [2022 Build Season Day 13 (1/20/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/01/22/2022-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 that design to make another - [2022 Build Season Day 8 (1/15/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/01/15/2022-build-season-day-8-1-15-2022/) - 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 reasonable and realistic. Prototyping Progress - [2022 Build Season Day 10 (1/17/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/01/22/2022-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 the prototype work by using - [2022 Build Season Day 6 (1/13/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/01/15/2022-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 for our prototypes so we - [2022 Build Season Day 4 (1/11/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/01/15/2022-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 be working nonstop during open - [2022 Build Season Day 3 (1/10/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/01/15/2022-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 to help elevate the hook - [2022 Build Season Kickoff (1/8/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/01/09/2022-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 were very excited for the - [2022 Build Season Day 2 (1/9/2022)](https://team2502.com/2022/01/12/2022-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 from kick-off, today our team - [Bots For Tots](https://team2502.com/2021/12/17/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 interact with the bot by - [Minne Mini Offseason Event Recap](https://team2502.com/2021/11/21/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 bots (9902 & 2502). You - [MRI Offseason Event Recap](https://team2502.com/2021/10/22/general-overview/) - 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 members some experience in a - [Open Room October 2nd](https://team2502.com/2021/10/10/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 we wanted to make sure - [Talon Robotics September Update : EMCC (9/18/2021)](https://team2502.com/2021/09/21/talon-robotics-september-update-emcc-9-18-2021/) - Authors: Adhiraiyan Kartheesan, Pearl Jain General Overview EMCC was a fun, relaxed event where teams in the metro area met up to work on their robots, play practice matches, and learn more about other teams. The format was very open; there weren’t any scheduled matches, nor any official scores or rankings. If you wanted to - [Talon Robotics March Update](https://team2502.com/2021/03/18/talon-robotics-march-update/) - 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 being primarily writing, however, there - [Day 11 - Meetings and Drivetrain Testing (2/09/2021)](https://team2502.com/2021/02/16/day-11-meetings-and-drivetrain-testing-2-09-2021/) - Authors: Pearl Jain, Andrew Georgioff Today was mostly continuing to perform tests to determine the Drivetrain issue. Despite much of the day being meetings, we still managed to pinpoint the issue down to two possible causes. Drivetrain: We were experimenting with adjustments made on Saturday when we identified another issue with the drivetrain. We generally - [Day 12 - Fixes and Progress (2/11/2021)](https://team2502.com/2021/02/16/day-12-fixes-and-progress-2-11-2021/) - 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 was reattached after troubleshooting an - [Day 10 - Troubleshooting^2 (2/07/2021)](https://team2502.com/2021/02/09/day-9-troubleshooting2/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff Programming Much of today was spent on programming for the autonomous portion of the Infinite Recharge at Home competition, notably on the AutoNav challenge. Above: The first of three paths in the AutoNav challenge Drivetrain Aside from programming, the other focus today was on troubleshooting the drivetrain issue. Many different parts were - [Day 9 - Testing and Troubleshooting (2/06/2021)](https://team2502.com/2021/02/09/day-8-testing-and-troubleshooting/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff Programming Most of the programming today was focused on fixing an issue. This issue (assumed to be with the encoders) was a problem with the distance tracking. The distance that the robot thought it moved (measured by the encoders recording the rotations of the motor) was extremely distant from the actual distance - [Day 8 - Drivetrain Problems (1/31/2021)](https://team2502.com/2021/02/02/day-8-drivetrain-problems/) - Today was originally planned to be a split day, with several people finishing the plates for the new Intake, while we also started recording our practice attempts for the new challenges. While we accomplished one of these tasks, we were unable to record any practice attempts due to an issue with the drivetrain Drivetrain Issues - [Day 7 - Fabrication and Organization. (1/30/2021)](https://team2502.com/2021/02/02/day-7-fabrication-and-organization/) - We continued progress on our new intake today. Unfortunately, progress has been slower due to the limited tools we currently have access to, but we still are able to produce the parts in-house. We also received several containers for our new pit cart. Plate Fabrication We started fabricating the plates for our new intake today. - [Day 6 - Practice (Again) (1/24/2021)](https://team2502.com/2021/01/25/day-6-practice-again/) - Author: Andrew Georgioff Similar to yesterday, today we were mainly working in the commons (where we set up our field). Today was more focused on driver practice. Driver Practice Most of today was practicing the non-autonomous challenges for Infinite Recharge at Home. There was also a leak with pneumatics, but it was quickly fixed by - [Day 5 - Vision II (1/23/2021)](https://team2502.com/2021/01/25/day-5-vision-ii/) - Author: Andrew Georgioff Due to the plates for our new intake being on hold for now, today was primarily a programming day. There were also other smaller tasks done today. We also made a modification to the Power Port so the balls fall on a ramp rather than down into the bottom. This will make - [Day 4 - Disassembly (1/21/2021)](https://team2502.com/2021/01/22/day-4-disassembly/) - 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 hard at work. Today, we - [Day 3 - New intake progress (2/19/2021)](https://team2502.com/2021/01/20/day-3-new-intake-progress/) - 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 pneumatics. One of the primary - [Day 2 - Practice (1/17/2021)](https://team2502.com/2021/01/18/day-2-practice/) - 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 was done so that any - [Day 1 - Build Season? (1/16/2021)](https://team2502.com/2021/01/17/day-1-build-season/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff 2021 Season! As you have likely noticed, this is the first post of the 2021 season blog! Due to COVID-19 cutting the 2020 season short, FIRST is doing a different set of challenges for the 2021 season called Infinite Recharge at home, with several challenges. The full info can be found here. - [2017 Build Season](https://team2502.com/2017/01/09/first-blog-post/) - Welcome to the blog space for Team2502 Talon Robotics. We will update this site often to help our team (and friends and family) know what we are working on and the decisions that have been or have to be made. - [Day 4](https://team2502.com/2017/01/11/day-4/) - Overview: Once again, prototyping was the main focus for the meeting today. Many prototypes were improved and a couple more have been started. At the team meeting tonight, we had brief overviews from each of our present leads. At the end of the meeting, we voted on which drive train we would like to use - [Days 1, 2, and 3](https://team2502.com/2017/01/10/days-1-2-and-3-192017/) - Kickoff (1/7/2017): Today, we had our kickoff in the south commons. We started the day with a pancake breakfast, which then transitioned into our kickoff presentation, and into the online broadcast. After the game was revealed, we split up into a couple of different groups to read and analyze the game, Steamworks. In addition, we - [Day 5 (Rest) and Day 6](https://team2502.com/2017/01/13/day-5-rest-and-day-6/) - Day 5: Today was a break day for our team. The only things that happened were meetings and delivery of some parts. At the build leads meeting, we decided to order both a set of single speed and dual speed gearboxes so we can try both of them and figure out which ones we like - [Days 7, 8, 9, and 10](https://team2502.com/2017/01/17/day-7-8-9-and-10/) - Day 7: Today was another busy work day, and much more progress was made today. We planning ahead for the long weekend, many groups set up plans and goals to accomplish by Monday. Flywheel Shooter Today, a lot more progress was made on the shooter. Grant, the Isaacs, Kayla, Rohan, Maddy, and Miguel worked together - [Day 1 (1/06/2018) Kickoff](https://team2502.com/2018/01/06/day-1-kickoff/) - Kickoff Overview The game was released today! Everyone watched the game reveal. Then, the team all read the game manual . EVERYONE SHOULD READ THE GAME MANUAL (especially chapters 2, 3 and 4) so that you know what is going on and what the rules are. After everyone read the manual, the team got into - [Day 2 (1/07/2018)](https://team2502.com/2018/01/07/day-2-1-07-2018/) - Introduction Today, we started designing and building prototypes. There are a lot of really cool ideas. If you have ideas that aren't being made right now, you can come to open room, get a few people together, and start building it. If you are building a prototype, PLEASE SEND A PICTURE OF IT TO POORVA. - [Day 3 (1/08/2018)](https://team2502.com/2018/01/08/day-3-1-08-2018/) - Plan for Today: Today is going to be a continuation of yesterday, with prototyping subsystems and implementing new design changes to improve quality. Our goal is to have a vote on final prototypes sometime next week. Although this is actually a little earlier than in previous years, we may be better off with designs this year - [Day 4 (1/09/2018)](https://team2502.com/2018/01/10/day-4-1-09-2018/) - Introduction Prototypes will be decided on next Tuesday during the team meeting. During this meeting, the leads of each prototype will go over their designs and do demonstrations of working prototypes. The team will then vote for the subsystems they like. After the team has voted the build leads will discuss the prototypes and make - [Day 5 (1/10/2018)](https://team2502.com/2018/01/11/day-5-1-10-2018/) - Introduction Prototypes are still continually being tested and modified. However, due to the many minuscule changes that often take place, it is often difficult to continually write about it all. Today was a light work day, partially due to the fact that many other activities often schedule events and gatherings on Wednesday. It was partially - [Day 6 (1/11/2018)](https://team2502.com/2018/01/12/day-6-1-11-2018/) - Introduction Today there was an Engineering Leads meeting. The leads talked about the upcoming weeks and the plans for what should be done. By next Tuesday all prototypes have to done and ready to present. At Tuesday’s meeting, we will vote on the best prototypes. The other deadlines will be available on the team calendar. - [Day 7 (1/12/2018)](https://team2502.com/2018/01/13/day-12-1-12-2018/) - Introduction The team is still working on the various prototypes in the room. The entire team needs to help with making the prototypes so if you are available during build time please stop in and help for a bit. By next Tuesday all prototypes have to done and ready to present. At Tuesday’s meeting we - [Day 8 (1/13/2018)](https://team2502.com/2018/01/14/day-8-1-13-2018/) - Project Butterfly After being inspired by team 1717 from 2007, and also from looking at a RI3D team, we started work on what we call project “Butterfly”. It’s the idea that we will be able to carry two robots with us on the way up for when we climb. We built our first Proof of - [Day 9 (1/14/2018)](https://team2502.com/2018/01/15/day-9-1-14-2018/) - Project Butterfly We were successful in making one wing for Project Butterfly. The wing was able to hold students weighing about 150 pounds, and our old robot, disc-o, with Titanium on top of it (Probably about 170 lbs). After upgrading the brackets into quarter inch plate, we no longer saw any type of bending at - [Day 10 (1/15/2018)](https://team2502.com/2018/01/16/day-10-1-15-2018/) - Introduction Today a lot of finishing up prototypes was done. On Tuesday at the team meeting we will vote on the best prototypes, so all prototypes have to be done before the meeting if you want them to be considered. After the prototypes are voted for, then we will start to make them out of - [Day 8 - Testing the Flywheel (1/11/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/11/day-8-testing-the-flywheel/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra, Danny Georgioff Introduction Today was Isaac Ash’s birthday. He is our senior engineering captain. Happy birthday, Isaac! Also, today, one of the FTC teams at the middle school had their league qualifier. Sadly, they were ranked 20th of 25 and did not make it to state. Fortunately, many of the - [Day 9 - Balance (1/12/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/12/day-9-balance-1-12-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Double Flywheel Testing We continued testing of the double flywheel today, this time with different angles. During some early testing, we found that the shafts extending past the bearings on both sides were causing balance issues. We cut the shaft to the needed length and it increased stability upon further - [Days 67, 70, 71 - Winding Down the Season (03/10/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/03/22/days-67-70-71-winding-down-the-season-03-10-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff These days were the last days of open room for a while. Intake Redesign Planning: At Northern Lights we realized that a wider active intake would be very helpful. One thing that a wider intake would help us achieve is a 5 ball auto that steals the 2 balls that - [Day 6 - Mail! (1/9/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/10/day-6-mail-1-9-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Introduction Unfortunately, progress was a little slow compared to the other days due to other meetings (FTC mentoring, mentor meeting, SW Hub meeting). We did, however, get a bunch of parts in the mail, including Spacer stock for the drivetrainMetal parts for our 3D printed vectored intake wheelsA lazy susan - [Day 7 - Design Review Meeting (1/11/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/10/day-7-design-review-meeting-1-11-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra 2 Inch Vectored Intake Wheels Yesterday, we finished assembling our first 3d printed 2 inch vectored intake wheel as a test. Today, now that we know how to assemble them, we assembled 7 more of them to be used for different intake prototypes. Rotary OBA with 2 inch vectored intake - [Day 62 - Northern Lights: Practice Day (03/05/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/03/06/day-62-northern-lights-practice-day-03-05-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff We skipped a few blogs. Day 60: We packed the trailer with our stuffDay 61: We brought the trailer and the students to Duluth Scouting We used today to get a more general overview of all of the competing teams. We started this with pit scouting, where we collected information - [Day 63 - Rank: Three (03/06/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/03/07/day-63-rank-three-03-06-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Match 7: Failed to Climb In our first match of the day, we were doing well until endgame. We had shot (and scored) 12 balls. However, when we tried to climb, we were not able to do so. As it turns out, this is because the climber ratchet was flipped - [Day 64 - NLR Semifinalists (03/08/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/03/10/day-64-nlr-semifinalists-03-08-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Match 63: Foreshadowing This was another tough match. Throughout the match we managed to out-shoot the other alliance, keeping the score slightly in our favor. However, the extra points they obtained from their double climb managed to barely tip the match, resulting in a loss with a match score of - [Day 11 (1/16/2018)](https://team2502.com/2018/01/17/day-11-1-16-2018/) - Introduction The team voted on prototypes today. The engineering leads will discuss this decision later this week. That decision will most likely be on Thursday. The team decided on the following: For the active intake, we wanted an elevator integrated active intake. For lifting, we decided that we should go with the linear slide - [Day 28 (2/2/2018)](https://team2502.com/2018/02/03/day-28-2-2-2018/) - Authors - Andrew Gazelka, Ritik Mishra, Grant Silewski Introduction After a few weeks, we finally got most of the parts back from CEM, or rather enough for us to almost completely finish a practice robot, and make many of the subsystems for the competition robot. CEM is an amazing sponsor, and even though they are really - [Day 31 (2/5/2018)](https://team2502.com/2018/02/06/day-31-2-5-2018/) - Authors - Grant Silewski, Ritik Mishra Introduction We have almost finished the practice robot! This weekend we pretty much worked on everything and got it to work. We even got our robot to drive around! More specifically, we adding chain to the drivetrain, finished putting together the butterfly, added the rotation motor to the active, - [Day 40 (2/14/18)](https://team2502.com/2018/02/14/day-40-2-14-18/) - Authors - Ritik Mishra, Grant Silewski Introduction We got a lot of work done on both robots this weekend! We added limit switches to our practice robot, hooked up some more encoders, and fixed small issues all around that needed to be addressed. We also made considerable progress on our competition robot, and there is - [Day 1 - Kickoff! (1/4/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/05/day-1-kickoff-1-4-2020/) - Authors: Danny Georgioff, Ritik Mishra The 2020 game was released today. Watch the game reveal and read the manual to more fully understand what Infinite Recharge is all about (long story short: its Rebound Rumble 2: Electric Boogaloo. Everyone should read the game manual to get an understanding of the game rules. Reading the manual - [Day 2 - Prototyping (1/5/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/06/day-2-prototyping-1-5-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff, Ryan Alexander Intake Prototypes: Linear, Rotary, Fourbar In order to shoot the ball and score points, the robot must first pick it up. Several intake prototypes have been started today, specifically the rotary OBA (over-the-bumper active intake) and the linear OBA. There is a team working on a linear OBA. - [Day 3 - More Prototyping! (1/6/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/07/day-3-more-prototyping-1-6-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff, Pearl Jain, Serena Jain Introduction Are you making a prototype? Please post updates and pics in the #blog Slack channel of what you’re working so we can make the blog more accurate! Winners read the rules. Are you a winner? Tunnels To use the power cell, we need some way - [Day 4 - Moving the Ball (1/7/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/08/day-4-moving-the-ball-1-7-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff, Ravisha Jaiswal Introduction Today was Justin’s birthday. If you don’t know who he is, he’s our junior engineering captain. Happy birthday Justin :) Turn Table V2 Last night, a new design for the turn table was made using the lessons we learned yesterday. There are two notable design upgrades. First, - [Day 5 - Shooting the Ball (1/8/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/09/day-5-shooting-the-ball-1-8-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Introduction Today, our Falcon 500s came in the mail today! We were going to test it, but were unable to due to the state of Sgt. Sammy. Also, here’s a funny story. Today, we were trying to get the Spark MAX’s to drive the NEO’s using just the driver station - [Day 10 - Send CADs (1/13/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/13/day-10-send-cads-1-13-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra, Sarthak Agrawal Introduction We received our power cells in the mail today and learned that they were even grippier than we expected. We also had our Noodles & Company fundraiser today and had a successful turnout. Above: The counterbore in the bumpers are shown Rotary OBA The rotary OBA was - [Day 11 - Makeshift Hood (1/14/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/14/day-11-makeshift-hood/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra Single Flywheel Yesterday, we finished the wooden parts of our makeshift hood. Today, we attached the wood profiles to the 80/20 frame. We also stole some plastic from the defunct turntable prototype. This plastic was form-fitted to the wooden hood profile in order to make the hood solid across its entire width, - [Day 12 - CAD, Caterpillars, and Cool Beans](https://team2502.com/2020/01/15/day-12-cad-caterpillars-and-cool-beans/) - Drivetrain progress: Parts, CAD Today, some significant progress was made on the drivetrain! CAD Today, a significant CAD update was made. Specifically, the wheel wells were widened from 3.25 inches to 3.5 inches. This will allow us to use the brackets we already have laying around for robot assembly. The distance between the green lines - [Day 13 - Prototype Voting (1/16/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/17/day-13-prototype-voting-1-16-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Introduction Tomorrow, there is no open room due to inclement weatherOn Saturday, 3 of the 4 FTC teams at the local middle school are competing at the Burnsville FTC qualifier. It will be the birthday of Ryan the Scouting Lead on Monday. Since we don't have open room that day, - [Day 18 - Flywheel Selection (1/21/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/21/day-18-flywheel-selection-1-21-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Introduction On Friday, we did not have open room because of really bad weather. The school day ended two hours earlier, allowing us to spend more time working in Solidworks on robot design. On Saturday, the FTC teams that we mentor at the local middle school went to their second - [Day 20 - Cleanup (1/23/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/23/day-20-cleanup-1-23-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Intro Today, less things happened in the room because it ended at 5:30pm instead of 9pm, not that there was a lot to do anyways. We are still waiting on drivetrain spacers before we can finish assembling the gearboxes onto the frame. We are currently in the process of creating - [Day 21 - Vision Returns (01/24/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/24/day-21-vision-returns-01-24-2020/) - Authors: Ishan Shetty, Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra, Ravisha Jaiswal Vision Today, the programmers spent some effort making the Limelight work on Sergeant Sammy. After getting familiar with both the 2020 version of WPILib (there are several important differences that impeded progress) and the example code provided in the Limelight documentation, they were finally able to - [Day 22 - Wheels Down! (1/25/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/26/day-23-wheels-down-1-25-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Climbing We received and assembled the generator switch (climbing bar) using ladders as temporary supports. This allowed us to more realistically test the climber and roughly test the effect of spacing and weight on the switch angle. Through this testing, we determined that it should not be egregiously difficult to - [Day 23 - Wheel Selection (1/26/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/27/day-23-wheel-selection-1-26-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Wheel of Fortune The completed Control Panel/Wheel of Fortune was brought in today. This allowed us to clearly see how much space you had when driving underneath it. In the future, this will allow us to test mechanisms and code for completing the control panel objectives. Climbing The climber was - [Day 24 - The Return of the SOLIDWORKS (1/27/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/27/day-24-the-return-of-the-solidworks-1-27-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Danny Georgioff, Intro Today was a CAD day as we are aiming to send CAD to CEM tomorrow. Printer Today, we got a printer donated from Stratasys! We are currently working with Stratasys to set up a training session and get it fully set up with materials, wash machine, and other such - [Day 25 - CAD, CAD, and more CAD (1/28/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/28/590/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff Today was a quieter day, with mostly meetings and CAD occurring. There were programming and summer camps meetings, as well as a team meeting, though many members spent the day finalizing CAD drawings to be sent to CEM. Summer Camps Meeting There was another meeting to discuss the curriculum for the summer - [Day 27 - Code and Hopper (1/30/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/01/31/day-27-code-and-hopper-1-30-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ishan Shetty, Ritik Mishra Robot Code The robot code is also being worked on currently so that the robot is programmatically ready for driver’s tests in a couple of days. Currently, the rookies are being helped with making different subsystems on the robot. These subsystems include intake, shooter, and climber. The senior - [Day 28 - Intake Prototype and Code Stuffs (1/31/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/01/day-28-intake-prototype-and-code-stuffs-1-31-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra Intake Prototype Today, we tested a new intake design. This design is meant to truly intake the ball over the bumper, as opposed to intaking it over a frame cutout. The design has 3 rubber rollers arranged to guide the ball up and over the bumper without any deadzones in roller-ball contact. - [Day 30 - Sent CADs (02/02/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/04/601/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Flywheel Testing We tested the flywheel today to get some final measurements on how much compression is ideal for maximum power. Through this testing, we decided to set the compression to 1.5 inches for now. CAD Drawings Today, we finished CAD & technical drawings for all of the parts that - [Day 32 - 3D Printer Setup (2/04/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/05/day-32-3d-printer-setup-2-04-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra 3D Printer We were taught how to operate our new Stratasys 3D printer by a Stratasys employee. We received the printer from Stratasys on the 27th. A basic set of rules was also determined for the 3d printer to ensure proper usage. The two main points to these rules are - [Day 34 - Airpods.SLDPRT received (2/06/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/08/day-34-airpods-sldprt-received-2-06-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Active Intake Parts Parts were brought in the room today by one of our members who cut them with a waterjet. There were originally more holes in the design for weight-saving purposes, but he had to remove them as they increased the cut time by an impossibly large amount.The parts - [Day 38 - Climber is finally CADded (2/08/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/09/day-38-climber-is-finally-cadded-2-08-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra, Ishan Shetty Field Elements All of the remaining field elements were brought in today, allowing us to build a half-field. Once they were brought in, multiple members quickly began painting them. After this, we set up the field for tomorrow’s driving test. Above: team members assembling one of the generator - [Day 37 - Bumpers and Bumper Usage (2/09/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/09/day-37-bumpers-and-bumper-usage-2-09-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Driver’s Test Today, we had the Driver’s Test. The driver’s test consists of two parts: a written, multiple choice test focused on the rules in the game manual, team updates since kickoff, and important Q&A questions; and a driving test, which involves precisely following an intricate path around a series - [Day 38 - Parts! (2/10/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/11/day-38-parts-2-10-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Parts Arrived! Today, we got a gigantic load of parts back from CEM. These include: Most of the hopper ribsMost of the shooter superstructureThe shooter flywheel weight! Above: Two of our four 02 - 07 Flywheel Weights, assembled onto versahubs. Look how pretty they are! They are made of steel. - [Day 39 - Homemade VersaRollers (2/11/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/11/day-39-homemade-versarollers-2-11-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Parts (Again) We received more parts from CEM today. These parts contained the comp bot drivetrain and some angled pieces. Sadly, all of the gussets that we had set aside at the beginning of the season for the drivetrain seem to have disappeared. Fortunately, we have some more coming in - [Day 40 - Mail to Robot Pipeline (2/12/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/13/day-40-mail-to-robot-pipeline-2-12-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Bumper Construction Today we received the fabric needed to construct bumpers. As such, we started construction and completed our first set of bumpers today. We will use these bumpers on our practice robot and for our upcoming week zero competition on Sunday. Fun fact: This is the first year that - [Day 41 - The Mail to Robot Pipeline Continues (02/13/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/13/day-41-the-mail-to-robot-pipeline-continues-02-13-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra Competition Robot Frame Two days ago, we received all of the parts from CEM that we needed to assemble for our comp bot frame. Today, we got a new shipment of gussets, bearings, and belt pulleys from VexPro. This allowed us to assemble most of our comp bot frame so that it - [Day 42 - Little brain: COTS | Big brain: 3DP (2/14/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/14/day-42-little-brain-cots-big-brain-3dp-2-14-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra 3D Printed Parts We finished printing our first parts -- drivetrain gearbox covers -- using our 3D printer from Stratasys. They are made of ABS because it is the only type of plastic (besides soluble support material) that our printer will print. The gearbox covers will help to prevent unwanted - [Day 43 - Week 0 Prep (2/15/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/16/day-43-week-0-prep-2-15-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Intro So much happened today! The robot is Working (tm). It intakes balls, pulls them through the lemon squeezer, stores them in the hopper, and then shoots them. There are still many improvements that can be made, such as code changes for the mechanism that feeds balls into the shooter. - [Day 44 - Week 0 Competition (02/16/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/17/day-44-week-0-competition-02-16-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Intro Today was a busy day today! For the third consecutive year, we held a week 0 competition (and for the first time, it was actually at the high school). The week 0 competition is an unofficial competition that gives teams in the area an opportunity to test their robot - [Day 45 - Post-Week 0 Repairs (2/17/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/17/day-45-post-week-0-repairs-2-17-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Drivetrain Falcon Shaft Yesterday, we noticed that one of our Falcons had a loose shaft. We did not have enough time to remove it from the robot, so we just ran with it and hoped that it wouldn’t cause too much damage. The Falcon shafts are able to come loose - [Day 46 - Comp Bot Assembly 1 (2/18/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/19/day-46-comp-bot-assembly-1-2-18-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra, Ishan Shetty Anodized Parts We received our parts back from anodization today. This was a nice surprise since we expected the parts to come back on Thursday. Assembly on the drive chassis has been started, but bearings have yet to be installed. Above: Our competition robot chassis anodized black Above: - [Day 47 - Comp Bot Assembly 2: SMH Vex (02/19/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/19/day-47-comp-bot-assembly-2-smh-vex-02-19-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Applying Loctite to Falcons We fixed a minor issue with our competition robot drivetrain Falcons. There is a small performance issue with Falcons where the internal screws that hold the shaft to the motor come loose, turn into screw dust, and permanently destroy the motor and lock the shaft from - [Day 48 - Comp Bot Assembly 3: Return of the Waterjet (2/20/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/21/day-48-comp-bot-assembly-3-return-of-the-waterjet-2-20-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra Waterjet Run + Hopper Assembly Today, we got comp bot parts back from the waterjet. These include the climber hook, the climber winch plate, and the two hopper plates Above: A short clip of the bottom hopper plate getting waterjet. You can see water bubbling out of the holes that allow it - [Day 49 Comp Bot Assembly 4: The Lathe is Bad (2/21/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/22/day-49-comp-bot-assembly-4-the-lathe-is-bad-2-21-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Comp Bot Spacers Today, we decided that waiting for two mentors to be in the room at the same time would delay our schedule too much. So, we decided to close the room for a little bit so that a crew could go up to the shop and cut comp - [Day 50 - Comp Bot Assembly 5: Loctite (02/22/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/22/day-50-comp-bot-assembly-5-loctite-02-22-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra Practice Bot Drivetrain During some robot testing today out in the commons, the practice bot drivetrain became busted. One of the bolts on the pneumatic wheels came loose and got caught in the chain. This broke the chain masterlink and bent a plate that was a part of the pneumatic wheel. From - [Day 51 - Spark Says: Your KF is negative eight billion (2/23/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/24/day-51-spark-says-your-kf-is-negative-eight-billion-2-23-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Roller Omnis Throughout our testing, we found that the third intake roller bar did not consistently get balls into the hopper. Often times, balls would get stuck between the airpods and the roller. To fix this, we experimented with replacing the third roller bar (1.7” OD) with many 2” wheels. - [Day 52 - Comp Bot Assembly 6: Bumpers (5/24/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/25/day-52-comp-bot-assembly-6-bumpers-5-24-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Bumpers Today, the comp bot bumpers were covered with fabric. They are almost complete. The remaining tasks are to Cut and apply numbers (in progress)Make and install bottom brackets (in progress)Make and install top brackets (not yet started) Also, for the first time, we are using steel for the bumper - [Day 55: Comp Bot Assembly 7 - Blocked by the Caucus (02/25/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/26/day-55-comp-bot-assembly-7-blocked-by-the-caucus-02-25-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Today was a short day because there was a caucus for local Eden Prairie officials, and we are not allowed to have robotics from 6 to 8 on election days. As a result, robotics was only from 3 to 5:30. Nevertheless, we were able to get some work done. Bumpers - [Day 54: Comp Bot Assembly 8 - The Big Belt Package (2/26/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/27/day-54-comp-bot-assembly-8-the-big-belt-package-2-26-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra Belts Today, we finally got our shipment from SDP/SI. If we had not contacted them about our belt shipment, it would have arrived in April, which is a ways away. Anyways, now that we have our belts, we installed as many as we could onto the comp robot, which ended up being - [Day 55: Comp Bot Assembly 9 - Journey to Belt-land (2/27/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/27/day-55-comp-bot-assembly-9-journey-to-belt-land-2-27-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra This is a picture of the robot. A lot of electronics and bumper-related tasks still need to be done, but most of the mechanical stuff is almost completely assembled/installed. Things that are done All belts are installed Intake, Hopper, Shooter are ready for electronics Things that still need to be done - [Day 56: Comp Bot Assembly 10 - RSTLNE (2/28/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/02/28/day-56-comp-bot-assembly-10-rstlne-2-28-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra Wheel of Fortune Today, breakthrough progress was made on the wheel of fortune spinner. We briefly attached it to the robot in its desired location, and confirmed that it will be able to spin the wheel of fortune. Afterwards, we took it off of the robot and installed the cylinder. The original - [Day 57 - Testing in the Commons (2/29/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/03/01/day-57-testing-in-the-commons-2-29-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff, Wheel of Fortune The wheel of fortune mechanism was finished for our practice bot. This mechanism was designed to be actuated by a cylinder so the robot could remain able to go underneath the trench. Another similar copy will be fabricated for the comp bot soon. Above: A Cylinder actuating - [Day 58 - ???? Comp Bot Works (3/1/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/03/02/day-58-🦀-comp-bot-works-3-1-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Above: A pic of the comp bot shooting from the initiation line Things that work on the comp bot Wheel of fortune Flywheel shooterIntakeHopperDrivetrain Everything that we tested works quite well. We ran into a small issue with the hopper where one of the sides was intermittently spinning. As it - [Day 59 - Final Duluth Preparations (3/2/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/03/02/day-59-final-duluth-preparations-3-2-2020/) - Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Most of today was spent on final preparations for Duluth. Tomorrow, we will only be meeting until 5:30 due to the presidential primary, so we aimed to finish all major robot changes by today. The mandatory Duluth travel meeting was also today (from 7 to 7:45) Most of today was - [Day 1 - Offseason? (3/15/2020)](https://team2502.com/2020/03/22/day-1-offseason-3-15-2020/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff, COVID-19 As you have likely noticed, we are into the offseason. This is because all of this season’s current official FIRST events have either been canceled or postponed (https://www.firstinspires.org/covid-19). Additionally, our school has been shut down through spring break (starting March 28), so all meetings will be digital and there will likely - [COVID-19 Update 2: PPE, Pit Cart, and Website improvements](https://team2502.com/2020/05/05/covid-19-update-2-ppe-pit-cart-and-website-improvements/) - Authors: Andrew Georgioff While we have been unable to meet to do larger offseason projects due to COVID-19, we were still able to work on a few smaller tasks. PPE Printing: Due to the effects of COVID-19, many places have had a shortage of PPE. 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