This year, the Hunter College High School Rohawks dealt with some pretty significant challenges building our robot. Hunter does not have its own dedicated workspace, so we build our robot out of a small lab space provided by our generous corporate sponsor, AllianceBernstein. Unfortunately, AllianceBernstein was closed to visitors due to COVID until February 15. This meant that we couldn’t do any prototyping, interact with the game pieces, or even meet in person with the students and mentors until about 6 weeks into the season. So instead, we took an alternate approach where we CADded the entire robot based on our best guesses of how the different components should work. We sent out all of the parts to be machined for us, and when we finally got back in the shop, we got to work assembling our robot. Much to our surprise, the robot worked mostly as intended, even though we skipped the entire prototyping stage. We’d like to thank all of the teams that posted their build logs on ChiefDelphi, as we certainly learned a lot from your efforts. However, 3419 prides ourselves in building unique robots, so we could only learn so much from those posts. We think we’ve succeed in the goal of building a pretty unique robot this year, and we’re excited to participate in the New York City regional this weekend.
Here’s a sneak peak of this year’s robot: 3419 2022 Reveal Video - YouTube
