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The Innovators are working hard to fit the parts together. Unfortunately, the groups did not always make sure their parts would all integrate together. The CAD’ed parts are being reworked and the parts are deconflicted to make things work together. Also, adjustments are being made to help prevent...
The Innovators have worked manufacturing the parts to build the robot. With these parts manufactured, they finished assembling the base. Another group on the team finalized the CAD of the gripper. Other members have been machining gear base box plates for the driving motors. The programmers have...
The Innovators finalized the basic design during the second week of the build season. Each of the groups came up with the basic designs for the system they were working on. The team’s designs were integrated into the overall bot design. We began prototyping the individual systems...
First, the Innovators started out going through the manual to determine what is and is not allowed during the game. (We don’t want to give the opposing alliance points due to our alliance making fouls.) It is necessary to identify the different ways to score. This helped the team to prioritize what...
On 3 January, the Innovators Robotics joined the Cougarbots (Team 2665 from Thurgood Marshall) and Robocalypse (Team 3777 from Lima, OH) for the FIRST Robotics Competition kick-off of the 2015 game, “Recycle Rush”. This cooperation allowed the teams to see some of the field elements that are new...
