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Raffle Calendar Fundraiser Winners

Submitted by TedG on Fri, 2013-02-01 00:00

2013

  • Day 1- David O' Connor
  • Day 2- Sandy Ellsmore
  • Day 3- Malinda Goulet
  • Day 4- Steve Gillingham
  • Day 5- Justin Weyand
  • Day 6- Peter French
  • Day 7- Malinda Goulet
  • Day 8- R.

First time driving

Submitted by tillmanbillman on Sat, 2013-02-16 14:09

I just got done with machining then I decided to go watch the robot drive. They asked me if I wanted to try driving, so I said yes. one of them said it was just like playing call of duty, press forward on the left analog stick it goes forward, press backward it goes backward and so on, on the right analog stick you push it the way you want your robot to look. I started driving and getting used to the controls, then I started making it spin while driving forward. Pretty soon I was driving around obstacles and parallel parking.

Madness

Submitted by Jacob Moss on Sat, 2013-02-16 13:29

Today (three days before the we bag the robot) we had about 10 members show-up plus mentors. At first the day started off at a slow pass like normal yet, after lunch it seems every one is running around asking for nylocks or to preoccupied with building to answer a simple question. If we worked at this pace right of the bat our robot would of been done before the end of the first week.

-Jacob Moss

The Shooter

Submitted by Evan_Almighty on Sat, 2013-02-16 13:11

Alright so I ended up helping Nick align the prototype shooter and it worked out well. The problem was always either the wheels were spinning too fast or the shooter's elevation from the ground. Eventually some freshman helped us out and we made the prototype a little more sturdy by nailing some wood together and holding it down. After that we test fired 4 frisbees. There were scores and misses still showing it could be improved.

thinking hard

Submitted by alex armstrong on Sun, 2013-01-13 14:45

So today we are working on the shooter for the robot - it is going good and we want to climb to the top of the tower and that is a little slow, thinking of making arms to make it up still it is coming together okay and ideas of just shooting are being looked over and over agan. We Really want to go up the tower.

The FIRST week of kickoff

Submitted by JFrench22 on Thu, 2013-01-10 21:10

On satuday at kickoff we recieved our challenge for this year. At first we thought it impossible to shoot the frisbees into the two and three point slots, But now through research we have found it not as farfetched as we did at kickoff. This week we have changed the shape of our robot three times and have come up with more than twenty different ideas for climbing, shooting, dumping, and collecting. So from my standpoint i think we are off to a good start.

Getting Ready for 2012-2013

Submitted by TedG on Tue, 2012-09-04 09:51

We're gearing up for the season.
The Events Calendar has been updated (to the best of our knowledge) up to build season.

Lots of stuff on it, September will be busy for BERT!

Hope to see everyone tomorrow night for our first Team Information Meeting at the BEHS Library, 6:30 pm.

Meeting - Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Submitted by TedG on Fri, 2012-03-09 05:22

There will be a meeting on Wednesday, March 14th at TEM, Inc. It will start at 6:30pm.

The Machining of the Robot.

Submitted by T.P. BERT on Tue, 2012-02-14 19:24

The machining people are busy for making the parts of the robots. The machining people turn raw metals into parts for the robot. Parts like the brackets and the shaft. They also make the motor mounts. Today they are machining more parts for our robot we are going to use for the compitition at Manchester.

Design Of Our Robot

Submitted by T.P. BERT on Tue, 2012-02-14 19:17

The robot we are building this year is designed to shoot basketballs. It has a rectangular base with four eight inch plastic wheels. It also has a shaft that is fourty six inches tall right now, but will be sixty inches tall when we put the hood on the top of it. There is an opening at the bottom with conveyer belts to bring it in the shaft. The shaft's conveyer belts will then shoot the basketballs out the top and out of the hood on the top. The hood on the top is so the basketball will spin on the way to the hoops. This robot can hold up to three basketballs in it's shaft.

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