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A basic review of our experience in another qualifier to prepare ourselves for next weekend!

A detailed description of PID and the problems we are having with our PD loop

Today, I talk about obsolete technology!

My first Plog-Is of Ringamajig-Hope you enjoy!

We test our robot's durability

Mr. Virani (the team coach) and I build the FTC ring rack and do the philosophy stuff.

Today we built the field, as well as morale.  Also, an update on the current robot progress.

My wonderful creation, it's alive! (credit goes to Ballistic for name)

I explain all about our robot's new spine.

A review of our new omni-sprocket design

Welcome to the residence of the Technomancer!  For my first trick, I will be explaining the recent developments on our FTC robot.

While this is our first year with FTC, it's not our first in robotics - and I can show you how.

Turns out the TETRIX motors blow up very fast.  We stalled one during arm prototyping and it released the magic smoke within one second.  Will have to be very careful from now on.  Researching it led to some informative conversations by the FRC guys when they were using these motors for their minibot designs:



http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/36133

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=89072



Also found a spec sheet for the motors:
TETRIX_Drive_Motor_Performance-1.pdf

Iron Reign holds an Open House meet to help kickstart the FTC season!

It's official - We have joined FTC.  And what better way to begin than with a blog entry?  Progress, that's what.

I talk about our outreach to our school community.

Team Iron Reign has entered Moonbots once again, this time for the 2012 season.  The team is the same, but the rules are a bit different, the most drastic changes being a competition timeline that extends into the school year and - this is really surprising to me - having the teams build their own game fields.  We have already finished and uploaded the video required for phase one, as is required by Wednesday.  To see the video or check on our progress, you can use the first link below.  You can also find updates about our progress and info about the challenge itself there as well.  Use the second link if you want to see our team profile as is shown on the official Moonbots website.  That's about it for now.  See you later! Our custom team page Official Moonbots profile page - Max Virani, General Genius Dept. Executive...

The team had a great time presenting their robotics work to the 4th, 5th and 6th grades at Travis Vanguard and Academy at last Friday's Fab Friday.  For those who attended, we hope you get a chance to share what you saw with your family.  Here is a set of links that will help you share and understand more about what you saw:

First Lego League: The video of our First Lego League robot in action

Our Ultimate Salad bar presentation at the UTA qualifier - we earned the first place project trophy for this.

We have a lot of entries in our blog.  The blog is used to document our ideas and progress:

A typical blog entry showing the breakdown of the fishing mission including text, a video of...

This blog entry contains most of what we know about line or edge following for our NXT robots.  We talk about how to build a smooth or proportional line follower.  We plan to improve on it with some drawings and videos, but we hope this is useful to you in the meantime.

We haven't put together a perfect run of the missions we do, but we're soooo close. Here we missed the groceries. We've since fixed that problem, but now we're usually missing one of the rats. Hopefully we'll get lucky at the tournament.