Micahel Waltrip Racing Demo

With our mentors at Michael Waltrip Racing

 Sharing about FTC and our robot

                                                              

The team in our new shirts!! 

Super-speedy-build-a-bot-in-'bout-an-hour Night

October 15th - Team Meeting

We had four crews of team members all working to get a robot ready for our demo next Wednesday!

Crew #1: Build Chassis

Crew #2: Set up wiring and batteries

Crew #3: Build arm scoop attachment

Crew #4: Program the robot for Xbox controllers

Chassis Team

Chassis Team

Arm attachment

The Servo Arm Team

Sir Scoop 

The Productive Programmers

The Xbox Expert

Last week we had a fun time making the center piece base of the game, and prototyping different attachments.

Progression Session

Team Meeting 10/01/2014 was an exhilarating mix of building the robot's field, sketching out robotic arm ideas, prototyping the ball-gatherer, beginning the T-shirt design contest, and enjoying each other's quirky ideas.

The Sawing of the Perfect-Measured Board

Go Team FIRE!

We have chosen a team name! By unanimous vote, this year's FTC Team #6972 name is 

F.I.R.E. -
Fantastically Inventive Robotic Engineers!

This past team meeting we also began to plan out our strategy for CASCADE EFFECT.

First team meeting

We had a productive first meeting Wednesday September 10th! Reading the manual and creating team names was tons of fun. We also constructed a model of the "Cascade Effect" playing area out of LEGO pieces.

Materials Sponsor

A big thank you goes out to Home Depot for donating all the plywood our team needs to build the field!