2022-3 FRC season Charged up!
This year a new generation of Middle and High school students will continue the TeraVik legacy. They worked hard and won two awards this season.
We took a week’s break to decompress after the competition. It is a lot of together time! We had a meeting to discuss what we did well, what we can improve on, and more. but the season isn’t over yet! There is recruiting and advertising that needs to be done, and lots of that will …
Coming home with two awards our team could not be more proud of what we accomplished this Rookie season. First, winning the “Highest Rookie Seed Award,” given to the highest placed rookie team in the completion. Then, winning the “Rookie All-Star Award,” is what our team worked so hard for, and it all paid off. …
Nearing the “end” of practice we had a happy little accident… We broke the paddle-like base that holds the gripper in place. With a little redesigning, CNC routing, added structural support, and extra parts (for emergencies), our gripper is now much more durable.
Better late than never, we have our first official drive practice with a fully built and tuned robot. We also have an amazing partial field in a woodshop that our mentor Jason graciously is allowing us to use.
We have made changes to the gripper and arm that will significantly impact the structural integrity and modularity of the robot. Custom parts that can easily be changed when something breaks are very convenient at the competition. Now we are ready to set it onto our swerve frame.
At the moment, we are not going to have enough time to put the kinematic arm onto our robot before Utah Regionals. So instead, we had to quickly build a still-arm that drops the wrist using pneumatics along with the gripper. Hopefully for the Idaho Regionals we have the full arm!
After designing our four-bar “Kinematic” arm, we finally got to see it come to life! The arm is driven by a lead screw and one motor that will kick out the forearm part of the arm.
After five weeks of hard work, problem-solving, and determination, our exceptional programming “team” (consisting of one student) has given our drivers a working Swerve Drive chain! This is exceptional for a rookie team, a very daunting task for teams to achieve.
After a friendly competition, “Suction VS Gripper,” the gripper team works on bettering their design and will enjoy some donuts as a victory treat.
During the preseason our team worked on how to build basic “tank drives”. This is so that we have more experience with the motors, motor controllers, and wiring. Not only that but our programmers can learn how to program the bots as well. So far we have 2 different bots built.