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