We have begun work on designing a simple climber that pivots onto the chain, doing a sort of “robot pull up.” This eliminates the need for a linear actuator like the AndyMark climber in a box (which would be more of a hassle to assemble), but it does mean that we can only cimb on […]
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WEEK 6: 02/16/24 We fixed a loose ferrule connection on the roborio, re-labeled the 2024 batteries with the new serial numbers, extended a SPARK MAX motor controller’s wires, and finalized the packing list/ tote for our Week 0 competition. A limelight camera was mounted to our robot as well, so it was wired between the
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Stormgears had a great match during our district competition that took place at UNH from March 28 to 30. We were able to become the first-place alliance captains. We had an alliance with the teams The Big Red 1512 and Chop Shop 166, and as a team we were able to become finalists. Our mechanical
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WEEK 5: 02/09/24 With less than a week until the Week 0 competition, we began packing materials we needed to bring. We revised our method for attaching and detaching bumpers during competition and decided to screw on the brackets for now. We sorted screws and some team members revised the design of the intake and
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Although there were a few errors in the electrical part of the robot during testing at WPI, it was mostly successful. After fixing these few minor errors, the electrical board is complete and ready!
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After finishing our essay and executive summary and submitting them, we’ve now shifted on our Impact presentation. Currently, we’re brainstorming the script for our presentation and what props we’re going to use, as well as setting up auditions for this season’s Impact presenters!
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The executive summaries and the essay are polished at this point, we just need to do some finishing touches (i.e insert any data) and we should be ready to submit!
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During this week, we continued to make progress on both the executive summary and the essay. One issue we ran into concerned what titles we wanted to have for our ‘10 ways we’ve impacted our community’ in our essay, and we eventually figured it out by having titles that were simple yet also conveyed Stormgears’
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After outlining what things we want to talk about in our essay (10 ways we’ve impacted our community) and executive summary, we’ve started working on fleshing out those ideas through our weekly virtual sessions and in-person meetings. Even though we couldn’t discuss our impact past 2021, we quickly realized that we have an incredible amount
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Our team started working on outlines for both the Executive Summary and the Essay after the challenge was revealed, breaking up into teams to discuss what approaches we should use. We also discussed the main theme that we wanted to incorporate through our essay and our presentation-the fact that Stormgears is turning 10!
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