Robotics Summer Plans?

[torihoelscher]

What are you doing this summer? Are you rebuilding robots, volunteering, or holding meetings? What is your plan to prepare for the 2012 build season?

[ebarker]

Having meetings, creating budget and calendars for the next 12 months, cookouts, flag football, rebuilding robots, eating ice cream, going to the movies, doing inventory, making videos.

All sorts of fun !! The next two days we are doing two all day long demos for hundreds of girl scouts with our water cleaning robot at Lake Allatoona. ( coupled to ocean's day ).

A couple of hours ago we delivered it to the lake and set things up. And just for the fun of it, everyone jumped in the lake and swam around -- fully clothed. Just on a whim.

Having fun in the summertime at Kell Robotics.. yeah !!

[mathking]

We are doing a "build a robot in a day" activity to make a back-up robot for the Connect A Million Minds Invitational. Taking an old chassis and making it run with a device capable of scoring tubes. We'll see how it goes. We will also be doing an extensive inventory to get rid of the junk and see what we have. We are starting an engineering academy at our school next year (Project Lead the Way, in which students will get calc 151, 152 and engineering 181 credit from Ohio State) and we need to know what we need to buy. (Note: The engineering academy is in partnership with Metro High School in Columbus, home of FRC team 3324. Students and team members from both schools and both 1014 and 3324 will be in the class together for three periods a day.)

[jaganser]

-Community outreach events (state fair, ect.)
-Summer camp (design-build-program-compete; robot in a week)
-Underwater robot for cleaning the bottom of the lake
-flying robot (because its cool)
-elevator lift (for practice)
-chairman's video (you never have enough time during the season)

[Duke461]

Lots of stuff.
For most of the summer, our meeting schedule is Monday (6:30-9:00), Wednesday (6:30-9:00), and Saturday (1:00-5:00). We are currently making our robot better for the 2011 season, as we have three offseason competitions: MARC, IRI, and CAGE Match. Making it better consists of Programming, Fixing the lift system, improving minibot, improving deployment system, driver practice, etc. We also have VEX and FTC teams and sometimes start working before the beginning of the school year.
The previous week and this week we are hosting LEGO robotics camps for kids ~5-10 years old, and VEX camps for kids ~14 years old (http://boilerinvasion.org/index.php?page=photos&g2_itemId=37593). This starts at 8 in the morning and ends at 3 in the afternoon. During this time, some FRC students like me, are there the whole time helping them and working on the FRC bot.
We also do outreach such as library visits (http://boilerinvasion.org/index.php?page=photos&g2_itemId=33704), mall demonstrations (http://boilerinvasion.org/index.php?page=photos&g2_itemId=35858), elementary and middle school demonstrations (http://boilerinvasion.org/index.php?page=photos&g2_itemId=19732), Dodge for Cancer (http://boilerinvasion.org/index.php?page=photos&g2_itemId=23055), etc. These are usually done on weekends in the afternoon, when little kids are most free to visit places like libraries. Usually we demonstrate with an old robot, like Rowdy 10 from Lunacy (http://boilerinvasion.org/index.php?page=robots&id=1), or Jumpdrive (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86171).
Another thing we do consistently is go to the state fair (http://boilerinvasion.org/index.php?page=photos&g2_itemId=30998) and state house (http://boilerinvasion.org/index.php?page=photos&g2_itemId=35294). This is a great way to get recognition in the community and with big name politicians.
Other years we have worked on making or designing new robots or robot aspects, such as Jumpdrive, as mentioned earlier, or a CAD for a Crab Pod. This year we might be making a robot that will shoot little ~2" diameter balls that have the school's name and whatnot written on them for events like basketball games and so on.
Hope this helps,
Good luck,
-Duke

[ATH1RSTYM00SE]

This coming summer a few members of team 1676 will be converting our 2010 robot to CAN as well as reprogramming it with the labview update so we can train our programmers. Its going to be one heck of a fun summer :D

[lemiant]

What are you doing this summer? Are you rebuilding robots, volunteering, or holding meetings? What is your plan to prepare for the 2012 build season?

I'm starting a team :)
(not what you were expecting, but it really is a great thing to do over the summer)

[Alex.q]

What are you doing this summer? Are you rebuilding robots, volunteering, or holding meetings? What is your plan to prepare for the 2012 build season?

We broke into subteams to accomplish different tasks, each group has a student lead and assorted mentors. We may have bitten off more than we can chew, but as a team of about 50 plus mentors, I think we can pull most of it off. We shall see.


Build a showbot, which will be used in the Fourth of July parade. We are trying to build it mostly with what we have on hand, which is a challenge. Also, we only have about a month to get this done, so we have to keep it simple (and hopefully modular so we can put at-shirt shooter on it after the parade; shooting anything isn't allowed during the parade.) We may also use this as a platform to prototype various mechanisms.

Train more people in CAD

Redesign/prototype our swerve drive

Repair a scooter for a disabled student at a local middle school.

Work on Chairman's

We were inspired by the Pink Team 233, and may try to build a SWAT bot for our police department. I don't think we will finish this over the summer, it might take an extra year.

Fll outreach to the last schools in our district hopefully. Also planning for starting an FTC team.

Fundraise, State Fair, business presentations, outreach, team building, etc.

[Otanamaton]

We broke into subteams to accomplish different tasks, each group has a student lead and assorted mentors. We may have bitten off more than we can chew, but as a team of about 50 plus mentors, I think we can pull most of it off. We shall see.


Build a showbot, which will be used in the Fourth of July parade. We are trying to build it mostly with what we have on hand, which is a challenge. Also, we only have about a month to get this done, so we have to keep it simple (and hopefully modular so we can put at-shirt shooter on it after the parade; shooting anything isn't allowed during the parade.) We may also use this as a platform to prototype various mechanisms.

Train more people in CAD

Redesign/prototype our swerve drive

Repair a scooter for a disabled student at a local middle school.

Work on Chairman's

We were inspired by the Pink Team 233, and may try to build a SWAT bot for our police department. I don't think we will finish this over the summer, it might take an extra year.

Fll outreach to the last schools in our district hopefully. Also planning for starting an FTC team.

Fundraise, State Fair, business presentations, outreach, team building, etc.

If you are interested in building a SWAT bot, team 233 will soon sell a kit to do so. Refer to http://www.roccobotics.com/