Day One For Crossroads

Well, day one for us went like this: Leave Muncie at 4:30AM. Get to Terre Haute and unload our tools and what not. Set up. Put together the robot. Then make it to one out of our four practice matches for the day. Then test some more on the practice field. So yeah.... that has been it for today. Enjoy the photos! :) And if you can please follow us on Twitter @Team1720 and Like our Facebook page Team 1720 The PhyXTGears!

Jessica B.

So So Colse!!!

Today is our clean up and pack day! We have been hard at work sweeping, cleaning, and packing for the Crossroads Regional competition. Our robot has been patiently waiting in its bag for the day when it can be unveiled and taken out on the field to compete. We are so so so close!!! The craziness starts at 4:30 AM Thursday. The plan is to clean and pack today, then load up the trailer and pack all of our luggage into cars at Morrison Mock at 4:30 AM Thursday. That we can be pulling out of the parking lot and heading to Rose-Hulman by 5 AM!!! If you want to see a schedule of how things are going to go once we get to regionals click here. Otherwise we will be going from the hotel to the school then back again, and various meals in-between. P.S. our robot now has a name! It was put to a team vote and some of our choices were A.G.R., Bacon, Something Green, T.A.R. (the awesomest robot), and Thing 3. But the winner this year is GreenGo!

TUESDAY!!!

Things are really starting to come to a close for us. We are getting closer to our competition and there isn't much left to do as far as working on our robot goes. In the computer lab, I made name tags for the team members who are going to the competition so that the judges will know who is on our team and who to talk to if they have any questions.

In the machine shop we did more testing with our shooter and the lift mechanism. After that Ryan and Jeremiah took the shooter hostage and covered it in paint. Then Madeline was caught at the drive station doing something to our program. The end.

Oh wait! P.S. Some more name suggestions for the robot this year are now BINGO, Walt (After the inventor of the frisbee), and AGR (All Green Robot). We'll see what sticks! Which one do you think it should be? You can vote in the side bar to the right. If you have any more ideas to add you can leave a comment below. :)

Jessica B.

Saturday Work Day

Yet again today was a rather slow day for us here at 1720. Things look really different for us from when it's our six week build season to when we are waiting for our regional competition to when we are in our complete off season over the summer. Right now we are just sitting and waiting for our regional competition to come up. We will be going to the Crossroads FIRST Robotics Chalenge regional competition at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology the first weekend in April. So it's comming up and will be here before we know it! If you want to make the drive we would love to see you at the competition! Stop by and say hey or come and cheer with us! :)

That's it for today,
Jessica B.

Counting Down The Days!!!

So today has been a rather slow day. We have the bumpers pretty much finished now! The robot has had some updates made to it's program, and the autonomous program working now!!! Other than that only a little mechanical work has been done tonight.

Until next time (Saturday 1-5!)
Jessica B.