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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Final Touches!

Hey guys! FTC Team 7799 here.



Today is quite the busy day. Our PR team is updating the Engineering Notebook and our Business Plan. They are also writing the new list of build materials. Since our competition in Eagan,we have given our robot a big makeover. We have made several changes including making the entire thing out of sheet metal and aluminum. Now we need to list every little thing again! All together, a stressful day for the PR team.















Build team is reinforcing the wheels after a little incident at our halftime show performance. We were lifting ourselves onto the bar and the latch that locked us in place would not lock!! This caused our robot to plummet to the floor with a painful THUD!


This messed up the wheels and the motor. so now build team is reinforcing our wheels with stronger material.



 We also included some handy dandy tape work to include an IR sensor. In autonomous, the IR sensor allows us to score 20 extra points.


Today we are also testing out and troubleshooting our autonomous to find the best way to spend the first 30 seconds of our match.