Team 10435 in the First Tech Challenge
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Saturday, March 3, 2018
The FTC State Championships were awesome but it was hard too. We were the second seeded team in the gold division but lost to an alliance of the 1st and 3rd seeded teams in our divisional finals. We were pretty bummed out that we couldn't play against the Black division. When the awards ceremony came, we found out that we were nominated for the Control Award at State! However, competition was stiff and without any awards, we were slim on advancement chances. 13 teams from Iowa would advance to the North Super Regional, and if it was 14 teams, we would have gone too. Even so, a couple of days later, our coach got a call saying that another team had to drop out, so we would fill in their place. So our whole team says thank you to the team who dropped out, a team that we don't even know.
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Monday, October 23, 2017
Relic Arm Has Been Constructed!
In order to get the relic in the recovery zone, we needed a way to extend 32 inches past the wall, so we developed a scissor arm. A problem we encountered while building the relic arm was that it wasn't strong enough when partially extended, making the arm extremely flimsy. First we tried adding washers to make it stronger, but then we figured it would be better to position the arm vertically, not horizontally, for added strength. Then we powered it using fishing line and a motor that when it rotated in one direction, it pulled the ends of the arm closer, and when rotated in the other direction, it would push the ends apart, thus allowing us to extend and retract the arm.
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