From the Blog
Brain Filling With Code
Since January 7, we have been hard at work on our robot. There’s great progress and breakthroughs, but then we hit semester finals. Despite the lost work-time, we are determined to stay on schedule and actually have a robot ready to be programmed by Scrimmage Day. The Builders finished the robot's chassis, and started working on a final shooter design as well as a ball-collecting device. They tell us programmers that the robot will be finished a week ahead of schedule. That means us programmers are moving from making significant progress in all three robot languages to working on basic autonomous code – in all three languages. Programmers are focused on interfacing with different sensors, as well as ironing out any bugs or issues they find.
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Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 11:30am - 12:30pm
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Recent News
Opening our Doors
For one Saturday afternoon each build season, The Green Machine puts down its tools and welcomes the community to come see first-hand what we’re building for the FIRST competitions. On Saturday, Jan 21st FIRST Team 1816 hosted the annual SPARK (Sponsor and Public Appreciation Recognition and Kudos) Day. This year, we again greeted more than 100 people who came to tour the team’s space within the Edina High School workshop and classroom at Valley View Middle School, where we keep our computers. The prototype of our 2012 robot, ZEPHYR, was on display, along with demonstrations from each of our subteams and how they are contributing to the team’s success. Visitors were mesmerized by the consistency of ZEPHYR-the-prototype’s ability to score at the top of the multi-tiered basketball hoops.
SPARK Day 2012 offers First Glimpse of Zephyr
Outreach
Come one, come all to The Green Machine’s annual SPARK Day! On Saturday, January 21, from noon to 2 PM, FIRST Team 1816 will show off the progress on the newest member of the family, our 2012 Robot, Zephyr. We’ll also show various field elements that our robot will need to navigate this year’s game challenge. This day is designed for friends, family, peers, community members, sponsors, school administrators and robot lovers everywhere to see what the Green Machine has been doing these past couple of weeks since Kickoff.
FIRST’s 2012 Rebound Rumble Promises Multi-Level Basketball Play
The 2012 season has officially begun! On the 7th of January, 91 Minnesota FIRST Robotics teams gathered at the University of Minnesota for the Kickoff of the 2012 season. The challenge for this season is called “Rebound Rumble.” For this game, a robot has to be able to shoot foam basketballs into hoops that are placed 28”, 61”, and 98” off the floor AND be able to drive over a 4”-squared-off steel bump in the center of the field or navigate over one of three teeter-totter bridges to get to the other end of the field. For the endgame, the robot has to balance on a bridge, possibly with one or up to two other robots!
