The first week of FRC is over.  Team members are finally stumbling home for a well deserved “long” weekend, even though for them, it will only consist of lots of homework on Sunday and back in the lab on Monday.

This first week has been fairly productive.  We’ve been able to develop prototypes for almost all critical portions of the robot, and have developed a fairly good idea of what the final design will look like and be capable of doing.  Each system group has built either a full prototype or has already made CAD drawings detailing the system’s design.  The shooter group has built and tested a pitching machine style launcher.  The chassis group has built and tested it’s prototype of a ball scoop.

More updates to come as the concepts of the robot come together.  Also, welcome back to Mr. Williams!

FRC team watching the 2012 Kickoff live stream

After fetching the robot parts from San Jose State, we kicked off our 2012 build season with the FRC 2012 Kickoff. Following an intense brainstorming session for the robot & game strategy, we ate lots of food with the parents at the potluck dinner.

Let’s go out there and do cool stuff!

CHS Robotics has migrated its content management system to using WordPress in preparation for the new build season. Site migration will take place over the next couple days.

Although lots of cool features will be implemented soon, we will be keeping the site with a minimal design to be unobtrusive, clean, and simple.