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 […]
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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 […]
On Saturday, October 20th, iRobotics hosted its first Robot Day in collaboration with the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum to inspire, engage, and educate children of all ages through the exploration of the sciences. Robot Day involved multiple engineering societies from the university as well as a local FIRST FRC team. We were […]
This code can likely be optimized but it functions to the performance needed, so there is not a great need to optimize every part. The code for the robot is written in Arduino C++, and is compiled and uploaded to the ESP8266-12e that acts as the ‘brain’ of the robot. […]
In order to reduce the overall cost and allow for a fully ready to go electronics package, Eric Layne designed a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) that allows all the components to be soldered together and only require a battery connector and the motors to be attached in order to allow […]