Posts by kswartley

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Snow

2 days of heavy snow and blizzard conditions does not help the building season.  We lost 2 full build days becasue of weather.  Good thing things were moving along well. . .

Building the robot

We have a rolling chassis and part of the arm works.  The design is coming along really well. Lots of ideas continue to move forward on the minibot.  It climbs to the top.  Need to get it faster and lighter […]

Animation

Autodesk 3ds Max is an amazing program. However, there is a very steep learning curve and I think we are still way downhill of it. Worse, 1 1/2 weeks, after releasing the task, they add information that changes the model! […]

Programming

The programming continues to go well. We have a good group of students who show up and are learning the programming. Some of the basic programming is done and we should be ready for the detailed programming when the robot […]

FLL Outreach

Saturday,  a group of students and mentors went to Iowa State University at Ames.  They were helping at at FLL Championship.  They had the opportunity to display and demonstrate one of our robots and promote FRC along with helping with […]

Animation

The animation group has started to work.  The topic for this year has been released.  The group has decided on what they want to do.  The story board is done and much of the narration is finished.  Now the fun […]

Game

The season starts NOW!  The game was revealed yesterday.  Looks similar to 2007 with some twists.  Last night was a fun night of games with some old video matches watched. Today was the first full “brain-storming” session. Lots of different […]

Update

Last meeting before the game is revealed. Mr. Swartley discussed the team roster and the importance of getting all of your paperwork in and the online information updated. Reviewed changes to the website.  Many pages have been updated or added. […]

Twitter

The Swartdogs now have a twitter account!!  This will be really helpful for those who don’t go to Regionals to keep up with what is happening.

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