1571 BraughtWurst Blog

Bunnybot

tbraught — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:51:09 +0000

Waiting to start

Can we pick up the bunny?

We were not successful at the Bunnybot competition, but the team learned some valuable information. We build a robot in four weeks and spend two weeks re-engineering it.

We spent the morning working on our manipulator and realized that our arm was too short. The manipulator We spent the morning working on our manipulator and realized that our arm was to short. The manipulator exploded when we tried to pick up a bola.exploded when we tried to pick up a bola. Thanks to Jim Jones for these pictures. You can see more pictures of the Bunnybot competition at http://picasaweb.google.com/imjayro/BunnyBot2009#. Thanks Jason Marr of Boeing for taking the pictures.

tbraught — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:01:38 +0000

Thank you Wayne for all your support

The senior class invites you to their presentation on May 5th. They will be sharing their highlights of the season. The presentation will be held at CAL in the forum (Room 220) starting at 7pm. See you there!

Take your child day at Microchip

tbraught — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:06:21 +0000

On Thursday, April 23rd, Microchip had a take your child to work day. Drake, Joshua, and Kayla took ISTI for the morning. The children of the employees enjoyed driving the robot around. They were able to pick up moon rocks and dump them. Some of them were better at driving the robot than our own drive team.

The parents enjoyed driving the robot also.

Successful 2009 Team

tbraught — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:37:51 +0000

Our team was very successful this year as we reached the finals before losing in the final round. The game this year honored the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. The robots had to pick up moon rocks and and place them in the opposing alliance trailers. An empty cell could be picked up and exchange for a super cell. For each moon rock that is placed in an opposing alliance’s trailer, your alliance would receive 2 points. If you were able to score a super cell, you would receive 15 points but these could only enter the playing field during the last 20 seconds of the round.

ISTI V was designed with a conveyor belt to pick up the rocks from the playing field and load them in a basket. After we pinned an opposing trailer, ISTI would dump the rock into the trailer. During the seeding matches, our team finished with a 5-1-1 record for a seventh place finish. During the quarter finals, the team had to win five matches in a best of three because of field malfunctions. The team won two semi-final matches to move onto the finals where they fell in two matches.

The team did very well as they built the robot in four weeks and made minor engineering adjustments.