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Revision as of 01:00, 9 January 2011
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The team set two very aggressive goals for 2011:
- Win 1 Regional Event
- Attend Championship event in St. Louis 27-30 April, 2011.
Contents
DEWBOT VII Build
Build season is the heart of the FRC year. It is the 45 days during which the team's students and mentors put their hearts, minds and hands into designing and building a great robot. Paradoxically, the time seems both far too short and much too long.
Starting with a cold January 8th morning and ending up in the middle of an even colder February night. The chronicles of the DEWBOT VII Build season make interesting reading of how we all band together to perform an almost impossible task of designing, building and testing a robot in such a short time frame. Associated with each weeks build are pictures showing happy (and towards the end, tired) roboteers and mentors hard at work.
Design Details
Drive Train
Mechanical Scoring
Scoring is defined in the 2011 Game Manual. We made an Excel interface that calculates the autonomous, teleoperated, and minibot race scores to help us determine strategy.
Programming
Electrical
Drive / Tactical
Strategy/Scouting
Events
Baltimore Area Alliance FRC Workshop
- 6-November-2010. Very helpful and educational. Our thanks to the BAA for their gracious invitation. (6) attended from 1640.
Move into Downingtown Robotics Center
- In November, Downingtown Area Robotics moved from the Micken Building into a 17 K ft2 warehouse at 320 Boot Road, Downingtown. This is a great space for robotics, allowing a full-scale practice field. Alas, no sense of permanence. Our 6th home (and by-far very best to-date).
Carly, Selina & Garrison organize our workspace within the Downingtown Robotics Center
Power tool alley
Storage closet
Practice Kick-off
- Team 1640 conducted a Practice Kick-off on 11 & 12-December 2010 in preparation of the real deal. A formal Design Process was introduced and tested during this exercise. 2006 Aim High game rules were employed for the robot basis, with the exception of the control system, which utilized 2010 standards.
- Game simulation using students as robots proved very effective and provided very good insights into the game play and requirements for winning matches.
- As always, the most difficult part of strategic decision making was in deciding which options not to pursue. Need to work on this.
CPR Training
- Nine students, mentors and parents from Team 1640 received CPR training and 2-year ASHI certification on 18-Dec at the Uwchlan Ambulance Corps.
Outreach
Downingtown Robotics Center Open House
- DAR hosted an Open House on the evening of 15-December.
Processes
Media
Sub-Teams
People
Team Sab-BOT-age is what it is only due to the efforts of the people involved. DEWBOT VII's success will be in the hands of the students, mentors and parents engaged. The team's very existance is possible only through the gracious generosity of our sponsors.
See our other robots at FRC Team 1640
