Spartronics Build Season: Week 3
Subteam Updates: Finals are done with! With this, the Mechanics subteam has gone back to work with gusto. While prototyping for the climber is still in progress, the design for the robot’s grabber is nearing completion and production has begun on some of its parts. Pneumatic, pneumatics, pneumatics. That’s the word you’ll hear over and […]
Spartronics Build Season: Week 2
Subteam Updates: Mechanics have started their build season off with a bang! In the short time available to them they’ve already managed to build and wire two test chassis for use by electronics and programming. Construction has begun on a scissor lift and mechanisms for cube manipulation are in the process of being prototyped. Electronics have […]
Pre-Kickoff and Kickoff
Pre-Kickoff: Pre-Kickoff? What’s that? In order to gear up for Kick off, when this year’s new game was released, we staged an event called “Pre-Kickoff” on the 3rd and 4th of January. This entailed, for those who aren’t familiar, exactly what it sounds like. We prepared our team for what Kickoff would look like, and […]