Conclusion of the 2012 Build Season
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- Created on Wednesday, 22 February 2012 09:49
- Written by Webmaster
Drop your tools, grab your bags, and seal it all up. The longest 6 weeks of your life has just concluded. Take a deep breath and realize that is over. Grab your mentors, teammates, and parents and thank them for all of the time they have given up for this. These past 3 weeks have been very stressful, hectic, and time consuming for the entire Greybot team. However, everyone on the team is very satisfied with what we all have accomplished this year. It is amazing to see a team with only 24 students work their buts off to complete a robot like this in that allotted time. Also, you may be concluding your build season for the rest of this year but the Greybots will be hard a work come this weekend to make sure that the bot is working order.
Week Three Update: Half Way Through Build
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- Created on Thursday, 02 February 2012 05:33
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Going over the hump this week after the third week of the build season has come to completion. The team is very focused on where everything stands right now and are working diligently to make sure all of the components of this years robot. As of right now, the bot is about 97% completed in terms of design. The team is making parts non stop and still has a handful left to go. As for the programming team, they are hard at work on their systems for the robot as well. Our electrical and management sub teams have been gearing up with their jobs over the past few days as well.
Week Two Update: Mass Producing Parts
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- Created on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 05:25
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Week two has been a very productive week for the Greybots. Since last week, the team has been focusing on the game for 2012, Rebound Rumble. The game challenge is to create a robot that can manipulate foam basketballs and score them into baskets. Included into the game are 3 bridges worth different point values where the bot needs to either cooperate with either their own alliance or the others. In regards to the game this week, the team really focused on the production of the current designed parts, working on the detailed design of the robot, and finishing prototypes and field game pieces.
Week One Update: Rebound Rumble for 2012
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- Created on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 04:57
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Wow! The first week of the build season flew by very quick. Anyways, this past week, the Greybots had all traveled to Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo to watch the pre-recorded kick off in a large classroom. After getting a few laughs from the GDC, special guests, and the organization heads, we found out the game for the year, which is in fact, Rebound Rumble. After seeing the game animation and figuring out small details. The Greybots, collectively, gathered into small groups and dissected the rules pertaining to the game. After all of that was done, the team got back together to discuss what certain strategy the team wanted to take. Even though there were some conflicting ideas about what exactly we wanted to do, the team got a very narrowed down game plan in their minds.