Category: 2016 Engineering
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2/9/16
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Casper is finally on the field and rolling! With more work being done on the competition robot the team has been working very hard to get Casper into competition mode. The drive team has also begun practicing by driving Lofty around the practice field and using the practice shooter. Finally, even with all the […]
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1/28/16
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The prototyping phase is reaching an end as all designs for breaching mechanisms are being finalized. With more effort being put toward the harder defenses to breach such as the portcullis and drawbridge, the team explored new methods to solve these problems. With the next phase of testing the mechanisms on Casper just days […]
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1/26/16
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Back from the snow days, the robotics team has picked up from right where they left off! Prototyping is reaching its final phase as the mechanisms will be added to Casper this weekend. A meeting was held to determine how far we are and we can successfully traverse more than half the defenses.New Year wishes […]
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1/24/16
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Just because its a snow day, doesn’t mean there is no robotics! The programming team worked on autonomous mode with Lofty. The build team continued prototyping breaching mechanisms Galaxy S9 Release Date and tested the sally port arm, the scaling mechanism and the ball retriever. Thanks to everyone who came out today despite the weather!
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1/18/16
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. . . Lots of work was done today by the Green Hope Robotics Team! The build team with Mr. Lieberman continued work on field elements. The mechanical team worked on protype shooters and along with the programming team tested their protype arm to open the sally port and […]
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1/16/16
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Great progress was made today by everyone on the team! The strategy team presented their views on two different robots and the team voted for a breacher bot. The mechanical team made great advances on prototype shooters and tested them successfully. The programming team worked with […]
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1/14/16
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Green Hope Robotics continues to make excellent progress early in its season! Our programming team has begun to work on integrating vision tracking with one of our robots, Casper, allowing it to identify objects based upon colour. The CAD team continues to lay the groundwork of our competition robot by designing the layout and size […]
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1/12/16
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Another productive day for Green Hope Robotics! After a strong start at Kickoff, all parts of the team continued to progress and work efficiently. The strategy team has been doing work with cycle times and collecting data to better choose beneficial robot designs. The build team continued to build field elements and […]
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1/9/16
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Today marks the first day of the official FRC build season! The challenge was revealed as Stronghold. Half the team went to Hillsborough to watch the kickoff while the remainder of the team stayed at Frontier to prepare for the season. At Hillsborough, the part of the team that went was able to see the […]