During winter break, Accident Prone has worked on its bot and continued to make progress on the design. We have ordered major parts that we need and received many of them already. As we wait for more parts to arrive, we are making use of this time to review the […]
TRAP has made good progress over the semester. We started off with a series of team meetings to decide on the brief idea and some of the materials/microprocessors we would be using for the project. Simultaneously, the team was split into two sub-teams: mechanical and controls and team captains were […]
Over the last couple months our spent a lot of time during meetings gaining knowledge about Combat Robotics. The Controls team especially, learned about the components necessary in making a bot and choosing the right parts for the specific purpose that we are aiming for. Below are updates from a […]
We have had a great semester for FLL events with both the FLL Scrimmage hosted by iRobotics and Ctrl-Z as well as the Champaign FLL Qualifier. At the qualifier, our members were volunteering as general volunteers, project judges, core value judges, technical design judges, and referees. It was great to […]
C3DP Team has been making steady progress; we’ve recently waterjet our design for brackets, the heated bed platform, and the X-carriage extruder mount. We’re using a system of dowel pins and a pair of M5 bolts to make the extruder removable, so for example it could be replaced with a […]
After finalizing the CAD for our weapon’s bevel gearbox, we decided to make a prototype gearbox to make sure the 2x3x2.5″ profile is achievable and our components work together. Since we did not have actual components (due to SORF lead times), we had to make some substitutions. Our rectangular stock […]