Team 696's 2014 Build Blog

[sanddrag]

While it was our first time doing a blog, I felt we made a rather decent run at it. The one thing I wish we did better was post-bag updates. We'll improve this area next year. Our students learned a lot through the process and I enjoyed taking a break from the robot to write a bit every now and then. It's amazing to look back at how much we accomplished in so few days. The documentation of schedule will serve us well next year. It was really a crazy schedule when you look at the lab opening and closing times each day on many of the posts. There's also some detail in a few of the photos that some of you may enjoy.

[dcarr]

Just getting started but this is a great read! Among the many great reasons for doing a blog, I think keeping everyone on the team up to speed is certainly a great one. I imagine that having a central log of everything that occurs helps a lot in keeping all team members up to date on a day-to-day basis. Definitely something I'd like to start in the future. I also like your idea of appointing a new student to manage the blog - I'm sure that student has a significantly greater understanding of the team's operations after doing this.

[Scott Morgan]

Thanks for posting, I look forward to reading it.

[Mastonevich]

I am a little blown away that a team who created a robot with a 3-ball auto was not able to make the championships.

Thanks for sharing the blog, it will be a great tool for other teams to look at and possibly inspire their own process improvements.