100 days til Kick-Off

[mayde]

My team is currently building an off-season robot project to prepare us for the season ahead. The project we chose was to build a driven t-shirt cannon from the ground up, and we're using all of the aspects of the build process from a normal season in the completion of this project.
We meet regularly to work on this as well as starting our fundraising and talking about our plans for the season.

[pwnageNick]

Team 2949 has and will be up to a few things:
1) Obviously fundraising. When are we not?
2) During the summer we started re-designing our entire pit and will be building all new structures for it once the CAD work is done (yes, we're cadding our pit.) It's also been great practice for some of our members. We'll post pictures of it as it is completed. Should be pretty awesome.
3) During the Fall and early winter, we have a goal to build and perfect as much as possible a west coast drive train. No idea if we'll ever decide to use it but once again, good CAD practice, good building practice, and hopefully we'll learn from some mistakes along the way.
4) While working on the drive-train, we also hope to perfect our own custom 2-speed gearbox's that will also have the option for a third motor. Never know when that will be useful.
5) Some of our students are also working on VEX or FTC so that's keeping everyone busy.
6) Did I mention fundraising?

-Nick
PWNAGE 2949

[PayneTrain]

We tested Geoffrey in anticipation of our community Fall Festival tomorrow and the Rumble on October 8th. We also have continued restoring the 2001 robot for Fall Festival.

After that, it's talent search for kids who want to market, design a new pit space for competition using SketchUp, and using AutoCAD for our fall design challenge.

So excited, if apprehensive over it being my senior year.

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by pwnageNick

2) During the summer we started re-designing our entire pit and will be building all new structures for it once the CAD work is done (yes, we're cadding our pit.) It's also been great practice for some of our members. We'll post pictures of it as it is completed. Should be pretty awesome.

We did this last year. They were extrusion and diamond plate with casters for easy moving. We (by "we" i mean "I") CADed them in Solidworks. They are extremely useful and easy to move. Fit perfectly into the trailer (not on purpose, they almost didn't fit by accident). WE LOVE THEM!

[onecoolc]

Originally Posted by mayde

My team is currently building an off-season robot project to prepare us for the season ahead. The project we chose was to build a driven t-shirt cannon from the ground up, and we're using all of the aspects of the build process from a normal season in the completion of this project.
We meet regularly to work on this as well as starting our fundraising and talking about our plans for the season.

This.
(Well. Obviously. Since Mayde is our team captain.)

I should also mention that the t-shirt cannon bot... is a gatling gun. B) It's pneumatic powered, and going to be very cool.

And I'm working on the business team stuff, trying to make it all make sense.