Snow.

Alright. This snow is ridiculous. We are very far behind and yes, I am annoyed.This is the worst it has been in a while. And, well, School comes first but we need this robot done. Our team will be working double time for the rest of the season and I am prepared to work later than normal.Chairman's has it easier at least.They have some time since they started before the season (thank goodness they did) I might go crazy from the lack of robotics work. I haven't had time to even film for the youtube part of this! But I do have some pictures of our craziness.

Anyways I hope other teams are doing well. So everyone... how is your team managing the time this year?

What a week!

Hello all!

Sorry there hasn't been a video uploaded onto the youtube channel. I haven't been filming much because I have been working, (its good that we are busy at least.) But we have everything prototyped currently and I have been able to do some fabrication of the parts. :) I love fabrication!

So, are freshmen usually very excited to do anything? Cause for a few days, We've been singing random songs. It brightens my day after working for a few hours on the same part.Ha! The FUN Song! Its even better when you get some mentors to start singing along with you or they just sing on there own. I've grown to love my noobs. They may be overly hyper and kinda crazy, but they are still great.

I need to give a shout out to team 1382 for the Skype chat today. You all made my morning so good! :) We can't wait to see you in Trenton this year! :)

I'll be posting more about our robot and chairman's soon. I should have pictures up with in the week also! :)

Building in a winter wonderland!

So, It was snowing since tuesday and finally ended yesterday at about 11. Luckily, we haven't lost much time in build. We just have a lack of students and also some mentors. We started with out mini-bot and have basicly decided apon our drive train. Its nice to be ahead of schedule. But with this northeastern weather, who knows how winter will be. So, currently, our drive train is half done on the floor and our mini-bot has many ideas surrounding it.

On a less build seasony tone, our new students seem to be quickly getting use to the build scheduel and are having plenty of fun. Tuesday, we sang the fun song, as a team. Oh how we all love spongebob. And yesterday, older kids tolled stories of Dallas and Atlanta last year (and unfortunetly, the story of me going to robo prom in a dress.) Its nice to have everyone able to work with eachother with out any problems. I can honistly say, I love our team this year. To mentor Rich, if your reading this in heaven, we miss you and your crazy ideas are very much needed right now.

The Start of another Season...

Hello all!

I hope all of you are finding this blog in hopes of some robotical new. The new FIRST Robotics Season has started and I, and my team, have been designing our new robot for this years competiton, LOGOmotion! :D

We have a few ideas for the drive train and arm currently. Its a debate and I personally want to combine a 4 bar lift with an elevator style life. (not the real name for it but thats what it reminds me of.) Anyways, I'm excited to see how my final year as a student on my team shall be.

I'll post later on tonight after robo if I am not too tired.

Good luck teams!