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2015 Cary Christmas Parade
A couple weeks before Christmas, we participated in the Cary Christmas Parade for the second time, allowing us to introduce our team and display our robots to our community. We lined up in the queue and prepared our float and robots for the route. As we were testing...
Hitchhiking at SCRIW V
After ranking third alliance overall at off-season competition, THOR III, we knew we needed to make some critical improvements to our new robot, Arthur, in order to perform to the best of our ability at SCRIW V. With a mere two weeks between THOR and SCRIW, our main...
THOR
A few weeks before THOR, North Carolina’s FRC off season competition, we had the idea to rebuild our robot, Dent. We knew it would not be easy because it required us to build another one in a little over three weeks that was better than our old one. Wanting to...
2015 North Carolina Regional
Having participated in the Palmetto Regional a few weeks before, our team came into this regional with a good idea of what we needed to do to perform well. Thursday went well and we were able to get autonomous working. We were also able to get in a lot of practice...
Build Season: Week 3 Update
This week, the team accomplished a lot in the building and design of our robot. One of the big focuses of the week was getting the robot to actually drive. After 3 weeks of designing and prototyping, our robot finally came to life. Getting to this point, though,...
Build Season: Week 1 Update
Soon after the unveiling of this year’s competition, Recycle Rush, we began brainstorming everything from game strategies to designs for our robot. We have met every day and have made plenty of progress in striving towards building a robot that will be proficient in...
Build Season: Week 2 Update
Throughout the second week of the build season, we have been hard at work. We started the week by assembling the eight mecanum wheels for the drivetrain, which proved harder than it sounds because of the instruction book that was more like a cuneiform (the earliest...
2015 Kickoff
A buzz of excitement ran through the room where students, alumni, and mentors stood clustered near the TV, eagerly awaiting an impending webcast from FIRST. After several freezes with the live feed and the long introduction that kept us in suspense, the 2015 challenge...
2014 Cary Christmas Parade
Soon after coming back from THOR 2014 as finalists, we only had about a month to modify our robots Benjy, Trillian, and Zaphod for the Cary Christmas Parade. Benjy wasn’t behaving, Zaphod’s code had to be fully rewritten, and Trillian had to be completely reassembled,...
An Explosive Week
https://youtu.be/IDzzBDrZKNg With build season coming to a close, here is a look at the creation of Zaphod.
Aerial Assist Prototypes
https://youtu.be/0RB6D-ve20k Prototypes are a huge part of our build season; through the rapid creation of different proof-of-concept prototypes, we are able to more effectively decide on a final design. This year, we tried three different materials to create...
Kickoff & Aerial Assist
https://youtu.be/3H9kZMAkRmg It’s the best six weeks of the year again! During the FIRST Robotics Competition kickoff, the 2014 challenge, Aerial Assist, was reveled. This year, teams will be working with other teams to carry 24-inch game balls down the field, over a...
THOR
https://youtu.be/-lmu6we24Y4 THOR (Thundering Herd of Robots) was North Carolina’s first off-season tournament, where FIRST Robotics teams competed with an official field in an unofficial event. We had been looking forward to it for almost a year, so when we...
Robot Demos
https://youtu.be/FkRGa_jAo1k One could label a robot demo “showing off with a purpose.” That is exactly what we have been doing for the past month. With two, high-performance robots at hand, we have traveled to local events such as the BEST FEST in Raleigh, Robot...
North Carolina Regional
After a decent run in Palmetto, we knew we had what it would take to succeed in North Carolina; Trillian was performing outstandingly and would often score more than fifty points a match. At the same time, however, we realized we would have to continue to...