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An update on Week 3, Team Titanium is on track. Team Titanium is working hard making our wheels, finalizing our chassis, and moving forward. The robot for this year is nearly finished. Much of the week was spent at the school instead of Billy Goat. The robot drivers have been thoroughly testing the robot’s capabilities and getting much needed practice. There were a few setbacks along the way, but the week is definitely an overall success. Awards submissions were also completed this week, including our first ever entry into the animation contest, that you can see below: Once again, we’ve made a weekly update video, which you can watch below: Less than three weeks until the Kansas City Regional! Paul Shackelford, Team Titanium Captain It’s crunch time with one week left in the build season. Week 5 was a very busy week for Team Titanium, with progress being made in many areas. On Sunday, we started with our open house. We had many people stop by, and enjoyed seeing the progress that the other teams had made on their robots. We worked right through the Super Bowl, using our Guitar Hero Robot TV to keep up with the game, as you can see below:
On Wednesday, school was canceled for the ninth time during the build season, but a few members made it out to the build site to make a presentation to a large group of community business leaders. Road conditions had improved by the afternoon, so the team had a few bonus hours to get work done. Thursday brought a much larger presentation, as all 400 eighth graders at Summit Lakes Middle School made their way to the gym to see various LSW clubs. Many interested students stopped by our station and asked all about our Force3 robot. It looks like the team will grow quite a bit next year! The programming team spent a day sorting out coding and cRIO setbacks, but were soon moving both their programming and our robot forward. The control board is taking shape, and the elevator controls are being fine tuned. All the sensors and cameras that we will use are either hooked up or in in the process of being tested. The programming team will finalize their code this week and assemble the parts that each member has been working on into a complete project. The mechanical team has been working on a minibot deployment system, making bumpers, and fortifying the strength of the elevator. The carrot chopping robot has come a long way in a couple of short weeks, and the elevator can now reach all the way to the top of the scoring grid. Our Week 5 video is now available!
Paul Shackelford – Team Titanium Captain The Blizzard of 2011 wiped out work days for many teams this week, and Team Titanium was no exception. After losing three days this week, we were still able meet this week for the first time on Thursday. Some team members were able to use these snow days to shovel driveways and earn money for their trip to Denver! Despite being buried under a foot of snow, progress was still made in many areas of building the robot. Our elevator has now been built and will be installed onto our robot chassis very soon. On Friday, we spent an evening holding driver tryouts, and have picked two drivers who demonstrate a great amount of finesse. Hopefully we’ll have more to add next week when we are able to get a full week of building done. Here’s this week’s video update: As we mentioned last week, Team Titanium invites the public to come out and join us at our open house on Super Bowl Sunday, February 6th, from 1-4 pm. Teams from Lee’s Summit High School (Team Driven, 1730) and Lee’s Summit North High School (Team Broncobots, 1987) will also be holding their open houses at the same time. Our address is 1803 SW Jefferson St, Lee’s Summit, MO 64081. Here is a map for orientation: Paul Shackelford – Team Titanium Captain |
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