Team 1245 Blog

T-SHIRTS ARE IN! BE SURE TO STOP BY THE LAB AND PICK YOURS UP IF YOU ORDERED ONE! This is our last week for any adjustments, details, and extras to do. Next week is the competition, so be sure that you have your permission slips and everything in order! Talk to Mr. Clark for any details.

With CSAP's starting, alot of us are burned out, but we're so proud to see everyone still coming and working hard on the electrical board, the box, and a new cart for the bot. There is still lots to do! Project Management and Business team are working together for the Chairman's Award, and the essay looks great!

We have tons of buttons so be sure to stop by and grab a few! And be sure to get all your lettering points in by the end of competition as well. Everyone is working and hard and doing their best! You guys are great, keep going!

The deadline for ordering a t-shirt is Thursday this week (2/26). If you haven't ordered a t-shirt yet, this is your last chance.
Button production has begun, they look really good, Nathaniel did a great job on the design. If you'd like a Shazbots button to wear around school to boost awareness stop by the lab. Mr. Clark will give one outreach point (maximum of two points per person) for each time he randomly bumps into you in the hallway wearing a Shazbots button (the key word there is randomly).

Time to order t-shirts:Click on the t-shirt link. Do this before next Tuesday as we will put the order in next week. You can bring me a check for $20.
Anyone wanting to submit a design for our button should bring it next Tuesday to our meeting. 2.5 inch circular, The words Shazbots, Monarch High School & Team 1245 should all be worked into the design.
Watch the website for Noah's video, it is almost done and is coming together very well.

Web team has submitted in the site for the website award. Everything regarding the bot is done. Programs are working, the bot is in good shape, the stickers are on, etc, etc. This Saturday will be the scrimmage at Colorado School Of Mines, so if you are going, please be sure to be at the school by 8:00am. That is when we will be leaving. Congratulations and Good Job to everyone on the team this year! You all worked really hard and did an amazing job!
See you soon!

Project Management: Woodie Flowers award still in progress
Business: Needs to add Colorado Plastics to sponsors list
Electrical: Completed Driver's Station
Pneumatics: Fixed the problems from yesterday
Programming: ALL teleoperated programs
Drive Team: Got more practice in today
Web Team: News Articles are finished

Project Management: Woodie Flowers is being worked on
Business: Done
Electrical: Indicator Light and tidied up wiring
Pneumatics: Fixing kinks
Mechanical: Straightened out wheels and moved liftor motor
Web Team: Working on details

Mechanical: working on getting the bot to fit the weight standards
Programming: Teleoperated is perfected and the autonomous code is ready; working on camera
Electronics: Switches are officially done
Web design: Working like crazy to perfect the website for the criteria
Project Managment: Working on the Woodie Flower's award and Communication plan
Business: Got a bank statement - $42 !
Drive team: Everyone is studying the rules and regulations of the game

Finally, this year's team photo was taken.
Web : Almost there!
Programming: Working on getting the autonomous and the compressor working. Finished teleoperated.
Electrical : Still working on the kinks
Mechanical: THE BOT IS DONE!!!!

Electrical: Built extendor cable to get power to the robot
Programming: Is close to finishing the teleoperated program
Mechanical: Remember, the bot must be complete by this Saturday!
Business : Lijit has donated :)

Electrical, pneumatics, and programming are doing there best to get the robot working smoothly and efficiently. Some issues were found, and we're not quite sure what they really are, but we will have them fixed soon!

Electrical: Finding and fixing kinks
Mechanical: Working on the bot nonstop!
Programming: Working hard to fix the issues it had yesterday with the electrical and pneumatics board
Pnemuatics: Working with mechanical to ensure that it works with the bot

Electrical/Pneumatics: Tested together to see if they worked together; an issue with programming came up though, and is being worked on
Programming: Is looking over the programs again and improving them
Web: Working quickly and swiftly to have the site ready by the award deadline
Mechanical: Your goal is get the bot done by the end of this week.

Electrical: Neatened up the wiring on the board and made a troubleshooter
Programming: Continued to improve the code
Mechanical: Arm is up and is extremely busy.
Project Management is going up to Breckenridge today for the AAS Conference today with Fairview High School. Good luck to everyone!
Business Team: Working hard and proficiently

Electrical: Hooked up the pneumatics board so that it could work; and hooked up the spike
Programmers: Got the spike working!!!!
Mechanical: Work continues on schedule and improvement is evident. ;)
Team Bios are nearly complete.

T-shirt design is done and the link will soon be available as well as an order form on the site.
Mechanical team is working on the arm and is nearing completion of the arm. Drive team got a lot of practice in today.
Programmers are working on the official code.

Project Management and business team are working hard.
The other teams are working very hard as well, and everyone is running ahead of schedule.
Keep up the good work!!

Project Management has been working very hard on the AAS Conference documents and presentation and are due to present this weekend.
they have done an excellent job so far and we are very proud of them!
The drive team has been getting some more practice in and is getting better! We really are looking forward to competition this year. Electrical
and programming  are still working on the kinks, and the pneumatics team has finally started to CAD their design for the pneumatics board.
Mechanical team is finishing the arm and the robot is looking great.

The robot is nearing its completion, and the mechanical team is working on the hopper.
Electrical team and programming are working together to fix the kinks on the board for the robot.

Mechanical team is finishing the arm.

Mechanical team has been working on the robot arm and the drive team has gotten in more practice.
Programmers are working hard on the latest code.
Electrical team has finished fixing the board and is working on the kinks.

Electrical team has gotten the new polycarbonate for the board and has begun working with it to fit the robot.
The t-shirt design has been decided on and Maria has begun designing the t-shirts online for ordering.
The mechanical team is working on the arm and drive train of the robot.
Programming has begun to prototype the official code.

Business: finished cash-flow assessment, projection income-expense graphs for business plan
Mechanical: Built the trailer, and started drive train
Electrical: The closet is clean!! And CAD-ing is done for the board.
Drive Team: Continue practicing w/ game pieces, and trailer
Programmers: Got camera working
Web design: Fixing the website and is working out the kinks.

We ordered parts for the arm today.
The electrical team has begun CAD-ing the electrical board for this year and is still working on the closet.
The drive team has begun practicing with the prototype of the robot while the mechanical team has finished building the fake hopper.
Programming is getting better with its coding and has finished the Labview code for the camera and is nearing completion of the other codes.

CAD IS FINALLY FINISHED!
Electrical team is still working on the closet and the mechanical team is still working on building the hopper.
General orders for the robot and whatnot have been called in and we hope to have any extra necessary parts here soon.

Tomorrow we begin building the robot, CAD design is complete (minus a few kinks) and the electrical team is finished taking apart
Last year’s board is now beginning to clean and organize the electrical closet. Mechanical has begun to build the fake hopper for the robot
for practice.

Design matrix is almost done.
CAD is almost done designing the arm and drive train.
Electrical team is taking apart last year’s board.
Programming team has been working hard for the autonomous code, and the regular code for the robot
Mechanical team is done with the prototype robot and is getting it ready for the drive team to practice on.

Design matrix for the robot is still underway, but we are getting close to a final decision.
CAD is perfecting the designs for the arm.
Electrical team has begun looking on last year’s board and CAD-ing this year’s board so that it works with the new drive train.
Mechanical is still working on the drive train.
We are, if anything, ahead of schedule and nearing the completion of the design matrix and beginning to build this year’s robot!

We ordered parts for the drive train today.
Mechanical team has begun to build the prototype robot for the drive team.

Design Matrix: Arm is still being discussed and we are debating over two of the best designs at the moment.
CAD: Drive Train and Arm designs almost complete!
Mechanical: Cleaning up the shop and taking apart last year’s drive train.

Design Matrix is getting closer to a final decision!
Project Management has begun working on the AAS Conference papers.
The Business team has been working swiftly and professionally on getting more sponsors and fundraising for the team.
CAD has begun the designs for the robot arm, and the Mechanical team is still working with the drive train.
Things are looking good so far everyone! Please keep up the good work!

CAD: Has begun to create versions of the drive train for the robot
Mechanical: Is looking over last year’s drive train and looking to see where they can improve on it for this year’s robot.
The team is still heavily discussing the robot and the robot arm with the design matrix.

Hello Team,
Great work from everybody today, we're off to a great start. If you weren't able to make the kickoff today and want to see the challenge, it is available at robotics.nasa.gov. The drive train is underway and the KOP is inventoried. We meet next on Monday from 3:00-8:00, supper will be at 5:00.
Here is the mentor schedule for the build season. Note that this is subject to last minute changes depending on job issues that may arise for them.

Monday: Dave, Christian, Barry
Tuesday: Dave, Roger, Barry
Wednesday: Roger. Christian, Barry
Thursday: Barry
Saturday: all

I'll be there each night as well, although will probably leave after supper on Wednesdays. Plan on a design matrix for next Saturday to decide strategy/actuation options for herding/deploying the orbit balls. Let's shoot to be driving on Saturday as well if not sooner.
See you Monday!

Hello Team,
One more day to rest up before the fun begins. Here are a few reminders:
1. Bus leaves at 7:00, get there a little bit early. We don't have a lot of wiggle room built in as we need to be seated in the Imax theater at 8:00 for the start of the broadcast
2. There is no lunch provided tomorrow so either bring a few $$ to grab something at the museum or pack a lunch
3. If you haven't returned your permission slips, bring them tomorrow
I expect we'll be back at Monarch around 12:30-1:00 and those that are available can hang around for a while to do some strategizing.
See you tomorrow!