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Paintball at Saltfork

Just as the last icebergs were melting in Champaign, members of iRobotics enjoyed a beautiful Spring day at the Saltfork Paintball Course this last weekend ...
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Outreach at Yankee Ridge Elementary School Update 1 of 2

This Thursday and last Thursday iRobotics members went to Yankee Ridge Elementary School to run a Lego Robotics workshop for 3-5th graders. So far they ...
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EVO Robotics Season Review

This past season has been a season of a lot of learning for EVO Robotics. This JSDC season, the team worked on exploring more mechanical ...
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Combots Destroy EOH (Pun Intended)

On March 14th and 15th, the combots teams showed off the power of their robot, the Proton Shaker, during EOH. At the event, the Proton ...
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iRobotics Outreach March Update!!

March has been a busy month for iRobotics Outreach!! iRobotics members visited Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School and worked with an after-school science club on a ...
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iRobotics Exhibits Rock EOH 2014!!

This year, iRobotics had two exhibits at Engineering Open House in addition to the Jerry Sanders Design Competition. One exhibit featured our robots for the ...
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Projects Team ComBots Cage – Huge Success!

The newly formed Projects Team built a polycarbonate cage for the ComBots to destroy old electronics in at Engineering Open House. This cage was a ...
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Brobots Season Review

The Brobots entered JSDC 2014 facing a lot of setbacks along the way, including the partial closure of the machine shop, the random explosions of ...
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Midterminators finish 2nd at JSDC 2014!

After a rigorous build season, the Midterminators took the finished product to the arena at the Jerry Sanders Design Competition as a part of Engineering ...
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Spring Break Barcrawl

Shout out to everybody who came out for the barcrawl last week! It was a blast. We had a good turnout, with over 25 of ...
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EVO Robotics Before EOH Update

It's officially crunch time for EVO Robotics with EOH around the corner! The robot still requires a little tweaking for it to be fully operational ...
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Spring Semester Update Part 2

With EOH coming up, our teams are working as efficiently as they can, building robots while keeping up in their classes. Even with all that, ...
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Midterminators, we have liftoff!

After Week 6 of build season, we have seen the first full-system performance of our robot! There are still some subtle mechanical and software tunings ...
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Combots 2 weeks to EOH Update

With EOH approaching, the Combots teams have been working hard to complete their robots for the Combots Cage of Destruction. One Bot is nearly complete, ...
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Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day

On February 22nd iRobotics participated in Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, an outreach event to expose High School girls to engineering which was coordinated ...
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EVO Robotics Update 2!

EVO's been hard at work these past 2 weeks as well. Our drive train is mechanically complete. Because of it's unique nature, e're planning on ...
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Spring Semester Update!

Hey Everybody!!! Its been a month since the Spring semester started and we have had two social events. First, was hot chocolate social with SWE ...
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Combots Update

The Combots team is continuing building two 120 pound battlebots for competition in Miami, Florida. This upcoming weekend will be a major build session as ...
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Over the hill…

At the conclusion of Week 4 of the JSDC Build Season, the Midterminators have much to show! After coming strong into the build season with ...
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Cyber Chiefs takes 2nd place at Purdue!

This past weekend, the Cyber Chiefs competed in Purdue's Winter Challenge. Thanks to everyone's hard work, we were able to take second place at the ...
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Spring 2014 Outreach

iRobotics has almost finalized our outreach schedule for Spring 2014 and will begin conducting outreach events soon! ...
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Combots Team Build Season

The combots team is undergoing construction of their new bot, a full body spinner. With the first set of parts arriving this past week, construction ...
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Brobots Second Semester Update 1

Build season has begun for the Brobots! We spent the first week of the semester finalizing our design for the competition and we are glad ...
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EVO Robotics Second Semester Update 1

EVO Robotics has been hard at work! We've begun building our drive train and our new frame is complete. We've spent many hours on the ...
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Check us out on I-Stem!

iRobotics hosted our first ever FIRST LEGO League scrimmage, on Saturday November 16th, for local FLL teams to test out their robots. Read more about ...
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EVO Robotics Update

Made Some Blinky Lights happen, I mean we have a control system! ...
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How to Join iRobotics

If you are interested in joining iRobotics, please fill out this form. Depending on which teams you are interested in joining, please contact the respective ...
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JSDC Rules have been posted!

Good news, folks. The first draft of the official JSDC rules for 2014 have been posted! Download them here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ss868ecwfgxg3p/27th_JSDC_Rules_PDF.pdf ...
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iRobotics Promo video

Check out our new iRobotics Promo video for 2013! ...
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LEGO Robotics Seminars

We had our first outreach events for the semester! iRobotics held a LEGO Robotics Design Workshop for local FLL teams on September 29th, 2013. We ...
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EDC Proposal Submitted!

Submitted our Engineering Design Council Proposal today requesting workspace at the ESPL!! Stay tuned! ...
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Meeting 9/15

Things we discussed 1) Individual team leads for Mech, Elec and Prog will meet on their own to work on their assigned tasks. 2) Updates Mechanical ...
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Thanks for coming to the cookout!

It was great to see all your smiling faces out there eating burgers and playing volleyball. Stay tuned for the next social event! ...
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New T-Shirts

You guys have been waiting a LONG time for this so yeah ...
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No meeting this weekend

There will be no meeting this weekend. A few updates: I got a few sign-ups for our team specifically through the GM. I will introduce ...
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FRESHMAN! The link for the EFC team form is below!

Click here for the link to the EFC team form ...
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Brobots Meetings

Weekly Meetings Have Begun! As of right now, we are meeting every Sunday 4pm in Loomis 146 ...
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Thanks for seeing us! Info Meeting on 9/3!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booths at Quad Day and E-night! Hope to see you all at the Info Meeting on 9/3, Transportation ...
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Welcome back to another Fall Semester!

I've personally seen this club mature so much over the past two years. From teamwork, to membership, to sponsorship, and of course to robotic knowledge ...
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