Category "FTC"

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Days 13-14

Had a great time at the Iowa FLL Championship! Although code for Captain Pike was a little difficult when we first pulled him out to demo. Getting drive practice in for students who are considering drive team. How do you […]

Brownies and Routers!

Due to connection problems with the school’s wifi system, we moved our drive team practice from the tiger den to a student’s house. There weren’t too many problems there and we got a lot of drive time in for the […]

Setting Up

Continuing to personalize our new doghouse! At last night’s meeting we had the FTC team come in and test their robot along with the new grabber design in a new space. We also went over basic safety basics, if you […]

Teamwork, Cookies, and the End of the World

Disputes over music occurred on this snowy afternoon. New music rules put into place. First person can play music outloud, anyone else wishing to listen to music at the same time must wear headphones unless majority wishes for a new DJ. Only […]

Autonomous

Code being developed to hang a ring during the autonomous period of the game. Previous autonomus – get into a better starting game position Goal – Hang a ring with the IR beacon

Claw

Our claw is being rebuilt! Previously it was created out of Lego pieces and rigid. Our first thought was to grab two at a time but that was a bust with the stiff design. So instead of working at grabbing […]

Uh oh!

All-State Jazz is the same time as our next Regional! That means Collin, Goobey, and Srinu won’t be able to make it. Back up drive team was going to be driving at the next event since the main drive has […]

FTC Ankeny Regional

A copy of an email from an FTC parent: Congratulations to Team 6420, The SabreHOOF Tigers! They, along with their alliance partner, Team 3608: RoboctoPi, from Oskalooska, won 1st place in the regional qualifier in Ankeny. The Tigers went 5-1 […]

Drive Team Selections

Main Drive Team Collin – Drive Train Erik – Arm Srinu – Coach   Backup Drive Team Jason – Drive Train Lauren – Arm Collin – Coach

Ghosts, Aliens, and Extraterrestrials

Ghosting fixed! Problems observed Dec. 1st. Determined that problem was in code/NXT brick. The brick used when ghosting was a problems was a little wonky. Looks like we’ll have to use our other working code in Robot C, but hey […]

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