It's been a minute, here is some recent things we worked on...
TerrorBytes Holiday Party
We hosted our Holiday Party last week. It was a fun event with many festive activities. Here are some pictures of us transforming our lab into a very spirited space. This was a great way to end the year and send off our team members into the Holiday season.
We turned super-pit (writeup soon) into a festive environment. Fulcrum wasn’t safe from it either.
MiniFRC: 9.5
We also hosted another edition of MiniFRC Charged Up last week. We were excited to see so many teams come out and compete (21). As always this was in the spirit of getting newer students trained with fabrication, electrical, design, and programming skills able to be learned from competing in MiniFRC. Marshall wrote a great post about how they, at 900, are continuing to push the limits with MiniFRC. As always MiniFRC information can be found in our previous posts and on our website (newly renovated, and very much still a work in progress). Big shoutouts to Alfredo Systems for again powering another MiniFRC. Thanks to all their work behind the scenes, we are fortunate enough to host these events. Be on the lookout soon for things Alfredo Systems and The TerrorBytes are cooking up for future MiniFRCs (summer maybe?).
Prepping for 2024
We have been busy behind the scenes “sweating” to be ready in time for kickoff (OMG 17 days!!! HYPE!!!). We have been working on training rookies through projects curated by our leads. Design is working on a 2018 Design Challenge together, Fabrication has been working on training on tools, Controls has been working on teaching people the controls system and getting them familiar with everything, Programming has been programming away, and Business has been cooking up many things including obtaining sponsors, outreach, and social media.
We have also been frantically trying to get the lab organized for kickoff (kind of there, kind of not). That is getting rid of the random stuff we’ve hoarded through the years, pre-stocking (ah the wonderous process of figuring out what the heck we need), and finishing super-pit. Shoutout to Fabworks for helping us get sheet-metal parts efficiently to have the super-pit “done” (it will never be done) before the break. We were able to finish up the top-shelving bits and get them inserted last meeting.
