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06-26-2010: Our team joined other MMRA teams at the Sloan Car Show with our robots to demonstrate there abilities.
06-06-2010: What great fun at the Autism Walkathon. Kids loved our Lego's.
05-12-2010: Rebuild of the robot is almost complete. The new kicker and rewiring is near completion. The wench is mounted and all that is left is the hook arm and rebuild the drives.
03-25-2010: Here is a video of our almost double hang at Kettering District Event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-kHzojAm7A
03-19,20-2010: Western Michigan District Event was great. We won the Excellence in Engineering Award and also made it to the play off round. The robot worked wonderful and the kids did a great job. Everybody was very interested in our drive design and asked many questions. If we can shave some weight off of it it would be worth doing again. We are waiting to see if we have made it to state, lets hope.
03-18-2010: We have an article in the Times
03-14-2010: We made the front page of the Fenton Press
03-09-10: Hey!! if we do well in Grand Rapids We get to go to state. Read this e-mail we recieved from David Verbrugge or GM representative:
Greetings Team 1322,
Congratulations on a great competition this
past weekend, a great looking robot and on winning the Delphi Excellence in
Engineering Award Saturday. I currently have the trophy you presented to me as
a representative of General Motors sitting on my desk between my Team 67 2009
Atlanta Championship medal and the 2010 Kettering Champion medal 67 won
Saturday. That is simply to say - I consider the trophy a very special item and
deserving a very special place.
I wanted to thank you for it and confirm
something I said to Kim and the young lady (forgive me for not now recalling
your name) who presented me the trophy Saturday night. If 1322, the G.R.A.Y.T.
Leviathons qualify for the State Championship, we - General Motors - will pay
for your registration fee. Keep up the good work and good luck at Grand Valley.
I hope to see you at Eastern in four weeks.
Cheers,
Dave
03-06-10: Second day at Kettering District Event. Another great day. The robot worked great, good thing, not much time between some matches to repair. Our ranking dropped but we were selected to go into the finals. Ryan did a great job driving, keeping Swartz creek at bay was a tough job. With two ties the other teams finally beat us but they were close ones.
It was great to win the Excellence in Engineering Award for our six wheel omni direction suspension. After two years of development it was a great pay off. Now onto the next design Idea that we will keep secret for now.
03-05-10: First day at Kettering District Event. It was a great day. The robot worked great and the kids did a great job driving. Finished first day in eighth place.
02-23-10: Ship week, we are bagged and tagged.
02-20-10: Week 6, WOW... the robot works great. Jumps over the bump with no problem and the winch works great. YouTube video going over the ramp and hanging from the rack
02-14-10: Week 5 for the robot build season. All is moving along fine. We tested our robot at the Enginerds facility on Saturday and found some items we need to modify to make the robot more effective. We are surprised that the robot does not climb the bump easy. With a run it will do it. Our winch works great and our ball kicker is doing its job well.
02-11-10: The local news paper featured an article on our team.
02-6-10: Robot and team after week four are doing great. Even with a lost day this week we are near where we want to be. Need to tweak the lift hook connection, connect the main breaker and it is ready for power. Our team is the most capable group we have had yet. All members are always busy machining and building on the robot. Other teams would be envious if they could see it.
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01-31-10: Robot after week three is progressing as planed. Almost all mechanical items are installed. We need to install the hook, grab bars for other robot and tweak tower pole guides. The kicker has given us trouble but has been resolved. The air is not exhausting fast enough to allow it to kick to it's full potential. With a quick release added we can extend the springs and latch it than reverse the 2 in pneumatic, when released it will kick to maximum. Using different valves we can control the exhaust and also control the speed of the kick for different distances.
01-25-10: Robot after week two, the build is going good and the team is doing a great job.
01-15-10: Robot after week one
01-16-10: Our trip to Baker was very informative. Our robot design was a big hit.
Worked on the robot kicker and kicked the ball 40ft. Gear boxes are together, we can start assembly of the drive system this week.
01-14-10: The build is progressing great.
01-10-10: Success going up the ramp with the test robot
You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQMcw4QNCLI
01-09-10: Great new game this year. A version of soccer played with robots.
01-01-10: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
12-25-09: Game Hint ?
12-20-09: Installed and tested the air suspension. It was functional but needs more design to make feasible. It looses air pressure as it sits for awhile and would need a higher pressure to make it more solid.
12-14-09: The latest design idea, air suspension. This design will allow the front to stay at the required height and still allow the front to pivot up when square to a ramp. If going up a ramp on an angle one unit will go up while air will force the other to go down.
12-10-09: Our third design of our mech/suspension is assembled. Nic and Ryan were test driving it at our Thursday meeting. This design is easier to assemble and works very well.
12-3-09: Welcome new members. Some new students have joined our team and have added to the high quality of our team. This years team seems to be very committed and willing to build a top notch robot for competition. We are working with them on drive designs, arm designs, electrical, pneumatics, and programming.
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