topperbotics

The 2019 season is well under way! 

          This season's challenges have been well received by our team and the build has commenced. While this year poses some difficult obstacles, we are confident in our ability to overcome this year's game with the mechanisms we ha...

We wrapped up this year's stress with more stress.  We did our best in competition, but on the second day of matches something happened.  In our first round of the day and accident lead to us losing our arm on Comrade.   The team worked hard to find a way to fix it, bu...

 We had a very tight schedule for our last two days of build.  We were hit with an ice storm and had to pack up shop at 7 p.m. and were unable to come in on the final build day.   Our team underwent a ton of stress.  Our core members in build, programming, and electron...

 The scrimmage has come and gone.  It was fun seeing what other teams came up with and their strategies.  We learned a lot about our robot this Sunday.  There were some small mistakes that were easy to fix, and some large ones that caused us to pack it up early and com...

We spent two days driving the robot in our school's library.  There were some lessons to learn and some things to fix.   Breaking and rebuilding is standard in robotics. 

We got our shirts Friday and we're very pleased with them.

 this week started a little hectic.  Our main actuator that lifts our arm up and down broke multiple times during drive practice.  Thanks to our programmers, we now have a programmed code that will keep the actuator from overextending and breaking.   

We...

We spent this week finishing off building the robot.We received an order of pool noodles for bumpers which lead to bumpers getting done. Electronics were mounted and cameras were put in place.  There was some problem solving on our arm which lead to minor adjustments....

Two more week s are left, but we hope to be done by next Monday- the 14- so we are ready and have practice time before the Week Zero Scrimmage at Aquinas High School on February 18.

This week we successfully mounted the grabber to the arm and mounted the arm to the robo...

This week has been a busy week of catch up.  Some of our parts didn't arrive in time, but now that we have them we are making some serious progress with our bot.

Last year's bot, Dolores, was partially taken apart for part and wires.   Our grabber mechanism was finalize...