Another late night

With most of the room empty only three remain. The programming guru, the aged engineer, and the president. The robot is getting some upgraded hard ware with a brushed finish and some updated programming.

The hard ware is a new plow on the front for easier ball hearding. We also added a new hanger stop so the contraption won't fall back on to its self.

The programming is for the kicker, but might not go into effect immedietly.

Another project being thought up is a vaccum pump to pull balls towards the robot and keep control of them.

The team is psyched for our competition this friday and the chairman's group are hard at work.

The last objective is to get recognition of the team from the office staff at the high school and get Mr. stevens to attend one of our competitions.

We hope all goes well this weekend.
-This is David Petty and Team 815 signing off

Hello San Diego!

Hello followers! This is Nick Marsh of Team 815. I'm not a usual blogger, but the rest of my team is in San Diego, California for a big competition. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend and I wishI could have the fun they are right now, but the remainder of the team in Michigan and I still wish everyone the best of luck. They will be gone until Sunday, and upon their return, we will do some more work on our robot to make it even better. Until then, this is Nick Marsh signing off.

Almost midnight!

Hello readers!
It is currently about 11:30 p.m. and team 815 is still hard at work.
Some members were here until 1:30 a.m. last night, or should we say, this morning.
The robot is looking amazing, as we are attaching the bumpers, and "fine-tuning" the kicker.
Lucky for us, the basketball team here at Cabrini gave us delicious Chinease food earlier around ten, and a party store run for some energy drinks took place less then ten minutes ago.
It looks like another late night in in our future. And so is an early morning, as we show off our robot at the local church, eight o'clock sharp tomorrow.
With shipping the robot to San Diego in less then two days, we can't possibly leave untill everything is finished tonight.
We hope all you other teams are well on your way to finished robots and some memorable times.
Until next time, this is Anna and Stier, with love.

So much to do, so little time.

The climbing mechanism still isn't up to what we want it to be. The kicker still needs to be changed around as well.

On the bright side, electrical is starting to get wired up. We are so glad to see Mr. Porter back and feeling better.

Button making, a great tradition started long ago has started up again, but is pretty slugish.

Chairman's award is almost done, other than our video.

Its looking like a great year.
-this is David Petty and team 815 singing off

Rollin', Rollin', Rollin', keep those thoughts a Rollin'.

The climbing mechanism is becoming spring loaded so that it launches into the air as soon as it is released. A few more modifications are needed to make it safer.

The kicker is getting a roller rigged up so that a ball will be held by the robot, for more control.

The winch still needs a pulley and we still need to get our electronics wired, and a new electronics board.

Our team has made so much progress and yet there is still a lot more that we need to work on.

-this is David Petty and team 815 signing off

Another season and even more members

As the word spreads, more and more start joining the sensation thats sweeping the nation. Unfortunately none of our members go to Cabrini.

Most of the day was spent working on our winching system to lift the robot at the end of the matches.

Other members worked on the Chairmans award while a small team started to make the much needed bumpers.

With the new bracing on our prototype field pieces, students and mentors alike try to show off their strength. Well the day is winding down as the students trickle out of the room

-this is David Petty and team 815 signing off

It winches!

Yesterday we finally got the robot to climb up our prototype of the field. After many disappointments and some digging through our bin of past parts we were able to rig up a motor with enough power.

With out the caution of Mr. Blow we might have lost robot, due to an over looked design feature. After the quick fix, we tried again and the robot worked better than ever.

-this is David Petty and team 815 signing off

Day 2, are we even supposed to work on Saturdays?

Today a small group of 815 went to the new building for Team Ford F.I.R.S.T. to help any teams with problems. The majority of the group helped do some random chores, i.e. carpet the prototype field, put together vaccums, and make bathroom key holders. The mentors and some other members went and helped other teams put together frames, as-well-as help with any problems that occured. The group that went had a great time and many people were greatly appreciative of the extra help.

After the hard work and a well deserved lunch, more team members met up for a team building exercise, i.e. lazer-tag. It worked out so well that for two of the matches only members of the team were playing. Ok so maybe you can't call this a team builder by the sound of it, but it did bring those who were there into a closer bond of friendship.

This was a great day nad everyone had a great time, we need to do this again and real soon.
-This is David Petty and team 815 singing off

Blog day one

This is our first blog since WWJ, we hope this all goes well.

So far we have a working frame and basic drive-train. We are transferring the kicking mechanism from the prototype to the frame for this year.

The chairman's award is getting tore down and being pimped out.

Tomorrow our team is going to The University of Michigan, Detroit Campus. This trip is a field trip to help out Detroit teams in need.
(we are now enjoying some delicious creme-filled cookies)

This is Anna, Dave, Trevor T., Traylor, and the rest of Team 815 Signing off.
-enjoy