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Our blog documents our robotics experience during the coronavirus pandemic: change, connection, and community.

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Feb 15, 20211 min read

Team Snailbot: Attaching Two of the Mechanisms

After all the separate components were finished, we worked on finally putting them together. We decided that the most efficient and safe...

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Jan 25, 20211 min read

Team Scissor Lift: First Week of Building

This week, I started building the scissor lift! I began by organizing my parts in order to keep track of my components, since without...

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Jan 19, 20213 min read

Team Snailbot: First Week of Building

This past week we have been working on building our robot from the parts distributed to our houses. Each team member worked on a...

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Nov 15, 20201 min read

A Little Break

Hey everyone! Right now we are going to take a bit of a break from the blog. We are still working hard, however you may not see as...

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Nov 1, 20201 min read

Picking Up Parts!

Sarah picked up various parts this week to begin putting together the Snailbot her group designed on Fusion. We are excited about the...

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Oct 26, 20201 min read

Transition to Real Robots!

This week we are going to start the process to building real robots! With the approval of our coach and administrators, I was allowed...

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Sep 6, 20201 min read

Putting together the Lift Bot

Now that we've finished with designing the different components of the robot on Autodesk, we can now start to piece the robot together!...

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Aug 30, 20201 min read

Putting Together the Snailbot Design

With all the CADs of its individual subsystems finished, we can now put together the full design of the snailbot! We took a final look at...

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Aug 23, 20202 min read

Finishing Individual Subsystems

This week the snailbot team got a lot done. They were able to modify the back of the vertical intake so that it was wider and fit the...

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Aug 16, 20202 min read

Learning Fusion Part 6 [Challenges]

Although we aren’t physically connecting parts, building designs in Fusion still poses some challenges. Firstly, it’s difficult to get...

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Aug 9, 20202 min read

Learning Fusion Part 5 [Adding Chain]

To start off, yes, this needs its own post. Compared to everything else in fusion adding chain is surprisingly hard, and mostly for...

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Learning Fusion Part 4 [Sketches Basics]

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Aug 2, 20202 min read

Learning Fusion Part 4 [Sketches Basics]

Now that we know more about the basics, it is time to utilize some more complicated tools that Fusion has to offer. Sketches are useful...

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Jul 26, 20202 min read

Learning Fusion Part 3 [Joints]

Origins in Fusion are connected using joints, which essentially "snap" together parts using origins as a point of reference (it is a lot...

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Jul 19, 20202 min read

Learning Fusion Part 2 [Origins]

For ever part you can add origins, which act as landmarks on the model. Common places to put origins are in the center of different...

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Jul 11, 20202 min read

Starting in Fusion

This week we started to work on our prototypes in Fusion. Additionally, we continued to prepare certain parts by adding joint origins and...

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Jul 5, 20202 min read

Fusion Practice

This week we practiced everything we learned in Fusion. We first added in a ton of origins for the parts, because as I mentioned before,...

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Jun 27, 20201 min read

Individual Subsystems

This week each person drew out their design for their individual subsystem, in order to get a better idea of how it worked before they...

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Jun 15, 20202 min read

Learning Fusion Part 1 [Overview]

This week I researched on the vex forums to find out what the best software was for 3D modeling robot designs in VEX. Many people...

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Jun 7, 20205 min read

Finishing Designs

It’s robot design day! Today, we aimed to finalize a design for our robot. Before meeting, we had all individually come up with drawings...

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May 30, 20202 min read

Drawing out Ideas

This week, we worked our designs and making them more detailed. Previously, we brainstormed our first designs (mostly just general...

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