What’s Inside the Box? FIRST Power Up – a game full of power cubes, switches, scales, and a climb! Check out this year’s game animation: It’s been a busy first week of our 2018 Build Season! Between wrestling with nuts … Continued
The end of build season happened approximately 15 minutes before this post, at 9:00 pm on Tuesday, February 21st, 2017. We bagged and tagged the robot and the next time we will see it will be at the Reveal Ceremony … Continued
FRED the Steamworks robot was a robot of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, hard and shiny in decoration; backward in driving; sleek, short, dusty, metallic, and yet somehow lovable. However, the robot is not quite complete as of yet. … Continued
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season … Continued
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single team in possession of a good robot must be in want of a good programming team.” Fortunately for us, we have several dedicated programmers and electronics people who have already been working … Continued
Well, Week 2 of the Build Season has come and gone, and the team is making enormous progress on the robot, which is very much a “Frankenbot” at the moment! You may rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied … Continued