Ok this is my first time doing something like this so bear with me. Hi, I’m Kaiden, team captain of team 3954 The 4-H Electrotechs. Based out of Emlenton, Pennsylvania. This is my first time trying to share our build process so please be patient, we are a small team, consisting of small town hicks building robots, no CNCs in sight at our shop, simply mentors that have seen a thing or 2 and students willing to trust every wild idea they have. Don’t get me wrong though, for our simple operation we do pretty well for ourselves, winning the Pittsburgh Regional once, being in the Top 5 5 times, and winning the Judges Award at nationals. Nothing extraordinary, trust me I’ll be the first to tell you that, but with what we have I think we do quite alright for ourselves, heck the most team members we’ve ever had was 2019 with 17, not a world class student list. This won’t be like the other OA you see there won’t be anything special with this one just a simple breakdown of our thought process, our work we got done, and maybe the occasional picture, just figured I’d let you know before you indulge in this s**t show. And remember if you have ANY questions, ANY advice, or ANYTHING of the sort I’m all ears. Welcome aboard and I hope you enjoy your stint on Flight Electrotechs.
Kickoff: We started our kickoff day early in the morning cleaning the shop, we recently received a shipment of spare parts from recently deceased Team 3957, another 4-H team very close to us. We spent time organizing that then settled in to watch the kickoff. We watched and our immediate reactions were shock and awe, this game is complex with a lot of nuance underneath the surface, but we immediately got to work. One thing about our team that I think makes us great is we focus all our energy into making our robot great at 1 or 2 things, last year it was balancing the bridge and placing middle cones and cubes, the year before it was scoring low and climbing high, the point being we focus all our efforts into 2 things at most and then let everything else be average. So the first thing we did was rank every part of the game in importance in our mind. From there we could decide what we wanted to do. But instead of rushing into our decision we decided to give each thought and option the light of day. Prototyping multiple designs for multiple ideas, floor pickup, high shooting, low scoring, feeder station loading, Note Manip., etc. That’s about all we did today, we decided to call our day early to give us time to rest up before we are back at it tomorrow. I’ll update tomorrow night on day 2 progress! Have a great season everyone!
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