Duel in the Desert

Day 35

Day 32

  • We went to Tucson High to borrow their bender and bent all of our pieces for our shooter! Thank you Tucson High!

  • We started turning down the turret drive wheel

  • We worked on the bumpers and bought the rest of the material for them.

  • We had a pool noodle fight and one of our mentors even joined in :D

  • We cut out the E-board (Emma board) and it fits on our robot

Main Achievement: Our tower is completely welded

Day 29

  • We finished our gear box for the turret
  • We worked on the bumpers
  • We CADed the lexan ball director
  • We planned a lot of the Dell Presentation
  • We made the turret spin!
  • We worked on improving our driver station

Main Achievement: WE FINISHED THE CHAIRMAN’S ESSAY AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Day 28

Day 22

  • Newsletter was sent out

  • We fixed our shooter so we could use it for a demonstration

  • We presented to elementary school kids at Math Matters

  • we turned down the outer wheel hub some more

  • We worked more on the mecanum wheel mount plates

  • Programmers improved vision tracking

  • Animators did more general work

  • One of our members went to Phoenix to go collaborate with FIRST team 2403, Purple Plasma

Main Achievement: We welded most of our frame :D