Introducing Frank the Tank

Frank is coming together, we've machined an awesome scooper for her in a real machine shop with lathes and drill presses, cool huh?  This scooper will enable our arm to pick up the scoring batons and well... score.  There was a meeting on Monday for build team where we finished designing the arm and and made the tread for our loading belt. I guess things are going well.


~（‐＾▽＾‐） ~Mr. Fusion

We're on the war path.

It's official, we're going to the tournament in L.A. and we'll be ready.  Today we made a list of goals that we're gonna get done and it'll be nice to be ready on time for a competition [knock on wood] and it'll be a lot of fun.  See you there!

~That's the impression that I get.

 ~Mr. Fusion. (ʘ‿ʘ)V

Samantha Is Working Now!

So as you probably guessed from the title we have our SamMod working, which is certainly a great deal easier to work with than the faulty and inreliable Bluetooth system we've had to deal with in the past. We have our robot, Frankie The Tankie, running around and able to maneuver over obstacles like nobody's business, and thanks to the tank-treads, she's looking pretty well designed too, if a bit tomboyish.  The pick up/scoring arm is taking longer than we expected but, hey, you can't have everything.  Also keep checking up on the blog because we are planning some FUNdraising activities in the future, such as a lottery.

 ~Mr. Fusion.

Community Outreach.

We've been doing some P.R. lately. We made a presentation for the S.D. of Girl Scouts campout and yesterday we attended a tech show, and while we had some trouble getting people over to the booth at first, we got it together and had a good time, we were even invited to a presentation about FLL, where we got to talk about FIRST and FTC. Busy week.

~Have fun!

  ~Mr. Fusion. 

Things are going better than expected...

Whoa, things are really going well, we've planed and are pretty sure of how we're gonna do what we gotta do, our design uses tank treads and a gravity assisted scoring mechanism, which makes things simple for everyone.  We have the base moving around really well, thanks to our programmers, so yeah, things look bright. It looks like we are even going to keep Alice 2.0 for community outreach events!

THE FUTURE IS NOW!

Mr. Fusion.