We have MORE parts! And mentors!

We've found more great friends among the FRC teams in Franklin's Metal Beavers, team 1432.

Along with a large amount of parts that they've lent us for BunnyBot, they've offered to be our mentors, which will give us a head start at knowing what we're doing when January 3rd hits.  They've invited us to their committee meeting this Thursday, 6pm at the pizza place on 6250 SE Foster Road, to discuss terms of mentorship, establish what we need and what they expect from us, etc.

Not too much else to write today, other than we have only a week to finish our bunnybot, so we have to get as much as we can done in the time we have.  Luckily, we now have a decent amount of parts from helpful teams, and I think we can make it!

We have parts!

Along with the basic frame we acquired some time ago, we now have most of the electronic parts we need for a basic robot.  Big thanks go to the Lincoln team for letting us borrow these, we'd have slim hope of being able to get a robot together in time otherwise!!

 

We also have some wheels, and as of now, one hundred 1/4-20 1/2" bolts, with matching nuts.  I picked these up on the way home from the hardware store near my house, and found that the prices at said store are fairly cheap, something we should keep in mind, as at least three members live quite close.

 

Because the scrimmage is next Friday, Kevin and I will be taking some extra time duting the free period we share to work on it.  If anyone else has a free 8th period they can join us.  If anyone has a different period free and would like to help, leave a comment on this post, or talk/send an email to Kevin, Zeno, or I.

 

Once we have a moving robot, it would be a good idea to drive it around during lunch, before school, etc, to raise awareness about the existance of our club!

Update on the state of things

- Kevin and I are working on making the relative-position control code work with the mecanum wheels, which should be done soon.

- The Lincoln High team has graciously offered us the use of a robot to build on for the bunny-bot challenge. This bot should be arriving relatively soon.

- The Cleveland-Franklin team may be able to lend us some spare motors and bits of metal. I'm still looking into this, and will post more info as it comes up.


Once we get a working robot, it would be a good idea to drive it around the school several times a week at times like lunch, before and after school, or in tech classes, to get people interested in the club.


~~Nolan

Oregon Regional Robotics Competition

Team 2951 is now registered to attend the Oregon Regional Robotics Competion. This event will take place Mar 05-07, 2009 in Portland, OR USA in the Memorial Coliseum. In addition to the $6000 Boeing grant that has paid for the entry fee into the competition and purchase of robotic equipment for this competition, Benson Robotics has received $3660 from Murdock foundation for our team and we still need to confirm with PGE that Benson HS is the team they are choosing to support. PGE grant is for $2500.

Testing a feature

Once you have been set as an author, you can send an email to <your email>.<code>@blogger.com and it will post the email as an entry under your username.

to set this up, go to the blog, and select "settings" (which can be reached from the "new post" screen), and type whatever suffix you like in the "mail-to-blogger" box. (this is something of a "password", as this address posts messages under your name, without confirmation)

-note: if you have admin privileges, you'll have to select the "email" submenu of "settings"

First post

As of now, I'm figuring out the possibility of having an actual site, not simply a blog. Until that is decided, we can use this in the same manner as the FTC blogs.

Now that this blog is up, I'd like to have those who plan to be a part of FRC to email me so that I can add you to both a list of members and as authors on the blog. I'm sending an email to Jeff that he can forward, as he has the list of emails of club members.