Arizona Regional
Last weekend was very exciting for CRUSH, as it was our first competition of the year at the Arizona Regional! After we eagerly awaited the doors to the pits to open up, we unbagged Yoshimi and started attaching our elevator, turret, as well as dressing her up in her beautiful lexan skin! At the end of the day we had a little time left for practice matches, and we started the long process of camera, turret, and connection calibration.
On Friday we spent more time on the field. By the end of the day we got all of our connection issues worked out, but unfortunately we blew half of one of our drive jaguars and could not turn in one direction, which limited our ability to collect balls. We quickly fixed it and had it ready to go for the Saturday matches.
The first awards ceremony was that night, and we won both the imagery and the website award! None of the members will ever forget the great feeling of running down to the field to high five all the judges and referees.
That night we also had a pool and dinner party with another FRC team, Purple Plasma 2403. The night was full of laughter, dodgeball, whirlpools, and many other fun and memorable times.
We all knew that Saturday was our time to shine. All of our matches went smoothly without any major problems on our part. Though we weren’t ranked in the top 8, we made it to the quarterfinals on an alliance with Project Neo 1164 and the Mecha Knights 996. Unfortunately after two long and hard fought matches, the opposing alliance had claimed victory. But we kept our spirits up and had just as much fun cheering other teams on and watching the exciting finals!
The awards ceremony that night was a nice conclusion to the event, and thanks to the Roboknights for giving us that wonderful box of cookies! We finished with a great dinner to wrap up the weekend.
We’re all looking for Las Vegas next week, and we hope to bring back good news!
Day 45
- We welded the additional pieces for the extra bearings
- We finished painting the bumpers
- Programmers finished making the wiring all pretty and ran more testing
- We re-attached the collectors
- We figured out what we want to keep as part of our 30 pounds
- We finished everything for our presentation and pep assemblies tomorrow
- We made sure everything is functioning and is ready to go for our pep assembly and presentations tomorrow. That way we can bag the robot right after.
ONE MORE DAY GUYS!! GOOD LUCK <3
Day 44
- We finished covering the last bumper in fabric and started painting them. We have 4 of 8 sides painted
- We cut and milled the mounts for the extra bearings for the turret
- We made a vibration isolator for the camera mount
- We ordered LEDs
- We finished most of the Bill of Materials
- Drivers practiced more
- We finished and sent out our newsletter
- Programmers re-programmed the aiming software to rotate the camera directly on the turret directly rather then the servos
- We turned down more collector end caps on the lathe
Main Achievement: Programmers also adapted the shooter aiming code to use motor pulsing for fine control
Duel in the Desert
Day 42
2012 Robot - Yoshimi
Day 36
Day 34
- We planned for our Feb 21st Presentation
- We CADed the shooter wheel plates
- We made the Hex for our turret
- We made the mount for our motor that drives the turret
- We worked on the gear box for our collectors
- We finished the front of our safety flier
- We attached all of the belts and collectors
- We mounted the elevator and the motor to operate the elevator
- We worked on the Deans List Award
Main Achievement: WE SUBMITTED CHAIRMANS!
Day 34
Day 32
