9/14/17 Today we welcomed a new member named Justin. He is a freshmen and is excited to be part of the team! At our meeting, we introduced the new challenge, “Relic Recovery”. We have started to discuss our plans for this season’s challenge. Written by: Maximo Mateo and Britney Ramirez …
1/30/17 Our team had the first meeting of the week today. We primarily focussed on the presentation and correcting a critical base imperfection today. However, there was something to do before we could start working on the bot. Wow! Our team really is committed. Data is blurred to protect team members. A photo posted by ImperialRobotics (@imperialrob3734) on Jan 31, 2017 at 9:37pm PST Our team utilized Doodle to create a schedule for the folowwing week. We wanted to ensure that our team was truely committed to making it to the February 4th qualifier. The red squares indicate that the...…
1/28/17 Ready to show our potential A photo posted by ImperialRobotics (@imperialrob3734) on Jan 28, 2017 at 11:19am PST This Saturday was a crazy experience. The day started with our arrival at the site with our sister team Iron Reign. We unloaded the bot into the pit and got everything set up. Next, we went in to our presentation room with the judges. Although our presentation was strong, we were not able to demonstrate our bot and its functionalities. We decided to create a stronger presentation for next time. Next thing on the day's schedule was the qualification matches. Our...…
1/21/17 All of our blood and sweat that went into our robot over the past few weeks is finally being tested next Saturday at the Ellis Davis Field House in Dallas, Texas for our team's FTC QWualifier. This means that all the team members had to put their hands on deck and work together to get the bot ready to go for competition. Despite the crazy Texas weather that we faced, we are almost there. Oh no! Nature destroyed the practice field! A photo posted by ImperialRobotics (@imperialrob3734) on Jan 7, 2017 at 1:40pm PST We were just about to...…
01/16/17 Yesterday, the team cleaned up some final details on our robot before the Qualifiers. We changed the beacon presser from our original idea of having a plate attached to a servo rotate to press the correct beacon because the structure was not sturdy enough. We attached a side panel and wired everything to it. We fixed an issue with the accuracy of the flywheel. The team also looked into how we could win some of the awards by considering our robot's strengths and weaknesses. For the next few meets, our goal is to run tests and make any final...…
12/24/16 Christmas has finally arrived! And what better way is there to spend Christmas than working with our robot? Although many of our team members were out of town for Christmas, we still made great progress. We decided to spend this meet addressing the issues that we ran into during our scrimmage. The first issue that we adressed was that the ball was getting stuck by the servo and it would not go into the PVC pipe. We realized that this was because the launcher mechanism was only buttressed by two small rods on either side of the robot. We...…