This year I was fortunate enough to be a part of the website subteam of Team Pwnage (FRC team 2949). Our mission this year has been to design a website that exceeds all of the expectations and meets the criteria for the Website Award, presented to a team at each FRC regional. Anyone is welcome […]
Post Build-Season Update..
Well.. the FRC build season is over and now I have a little more time for writing. I’m really excited to see how well the robot does in Chicago and St. Louis! I can’t believe how much I’ve learned in the last few weeks and I’m psyched to play around with the VEX bot again in all […]
In the life of an engineer.. Entry: 5
This break has been amazing and frustrating at the same time. I got pink eye and because of that I haven’t been sleeping that well, but, on the bright side, I’ve spent about 20 to 30 hours programming and tweaking our APEX robot so I’ve enjoyed myself. Another thing I’ve been doing is designing a website with […]
Kiwidrive code..
Here is the function for anyone interested. It controls the motor powers for the motors so that you can just point in a direction with your joystick and it will go that direction without rotating. The program uses trig to make the motors spin at the correct speed. Enjoy! #include “Main.h” void MotorPowers ( void […]
The APEX robot..
So.. I decided that since a majority of what I’m posting here is about robotics, I might as well introduce you to my team’s robot. Here it is! This robot was entirely student designed and built. We started thinking about ideas in late April when the Vex Competition was released in Dallas, during the Worlds competition. Some […]
Winter break is here!
And that means that I have extra time for my website and robotics! (among other things) There are a couple main things I’ve done so far this week: update the website theme, fix one of the functions that controls the APEX robot, swap out the APEX microprocessor, rewire the robot (because of the new processor), […]
In the life of an engineer.. Entry: 4
Sunday, 9-19-10. Written after attending the FTC brainstorming meeting at the middle school, quite a fascinating symposium. We had the Tetrics brainstorming session today. There were quite a few interesting ideas tossed around about strategy and game priorities (like what the most efficient way to score points in the game is, giving the obstacles and […]
In the life of an engineer.. Entry: 3
Saturday, 9-18-10. Aaron, Tony and I were talking about a new idea for an attachment to lift stacks of rings efficiently. (Competition: Vex Round Up) Aaron and I decided to get together today and try prototyping some newly proposed ideas for our team’s robot this year. None of the ideas are set in stone, we […]
In the life of an engineer.. Entry: 2+ a short linux comment
Another day in the shop today! We had a nice turnout to help clean up now that the season for frc is pretty much over. So, random parts got disassembled and sorted out, inventoried and stored in bins for the next build season. There was some talk of possibly doing some off season activities but […]
In the life of an engineer.. Entry: 1
Well, the team and I are back from IRI. Since our kicker broke at the competition we decided to go ahead and remake the part that broke and also make some modifications to the kicker to prevent it from breaking again. Our mentor gave us a lesson on metal and the difference between hardness/toughness. Hard […]