Welcome, everyone!

On Saturday, January 30th, Team 2220 kicked off a huge Build-a-thon! From 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., a few members of the team made use of the school’s workshops and graphics lab to really crank it up.

The rest of the team came in at 1 p.m. and worked until 5 p.m. Dinner was kindly provided by parents and much junk food was consumed. Thank you parents!

The Construction sub-team finished building the goals for the field. Only a few more things need to get done, and then the field should be ready for the mini-regional.

The Kicker sub-team used their design to start building their kicker. Long hours were spent putting CADD designs into practice as the group figured out what it took to get the piston to work.

Keep sending us good thoughts!

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Oh no! A caucus!

This week has been crazy with setbacks and problems, but have no fear, Team 2220 is never deterred!

The first big bummer was when Team 2220 was unable to meet on Tuesday February 2nd due to a caucus being held at the high school. But this delay was nothing!

The following Thursday, the build teams started the huge task of getting some of the different parts together. Through CADD, the sub-teams had been working carefully to ensure that all the parts being built would integrate properly when the time came.

The second big bummer was also on Thursday when the school’s Internet dropped, leaving the business and web teams unable to work.

The combination spurred the planning of a second Build-a-thon scheduled for Saturday February 6th. Also scheduled for that Saturday is a tour given by the business team for interested parents. It‘s a chance for curious parents to see what’s been taking up their child’s time.

Look forward to our results!

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Welcome, everyone!

Our week has been good so far! On Thursday, 28th, all the sub teams reported their progress.

The Lifter group has established a design, prototyped the winch system, ordered metal for the build, finished CADDing their design and has calculated the proper motor speed and torque to select the right motor for moving the telescope.

The Kicker group has CADDed their design, ordered and received the parts they need to build and is in the process of building their prototype.

The Construction group, with the help of parents from last Saturday, is done building the bumps and the towers for the field. They started building goal chains and the backboard of the goals with the target sign.

The Electronics and Programming group has built the show robot. After programming in both C++ and Java, and comparing the two, they decided to program the real robot in Java.

And now presenting, the individual students;

Tim is in charge of programming, electronics and CADD. He is working on writing the robot’s code and downloading it to the CRIO, the robots brain. He is also working on the drive train.

Alex J. is currently working on getting the CADD done for the chassis and the wheel plates.

Dan and Paul, who are working on the kicker sub-group, are busy putting all the pieces together to create a working kicker for the robot. The kicker uses a pneumatic system.

Hunter, a member of the web team, is working on installing a calendar on the website. He and others are also making sure that everything is linking up properly, first on a test website and then on the original website.

Check back for more updates!

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