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Friday, February 28, 2020

FIRST Robotics 2020 - Ready for Inspection

There is a detailed inspection required before you compete in a FIRST tournament. Any sharp edges?  Is all the wiring up to code?  Are there safeguards in the pneumatics systems?  Did you make weight and are you within the dimensions of the design requirements?  I imagine for the judges this is routine stuff.  In fact many of them regard it as a nice opportunity to teach the teams some fine details of engineering.

 On the other hand, when the judges get a look at the bizzare machine built by Team 5826 I suspect their response is going to be something like this.....

Wish us luck.  With our high risk / high reward design it is going to be an exciting ride.  To Victory?  Eh, who knows.  To Catastrophe?  This is also a possibility.  But it will not be boring.

 We get this weekend to practice and tune.  The robot loads for the tournament Wednesday night.  Updates Thursday/Fri/Saturday. 


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1 comment:

  1. wynneFebruary 28, 2020 at 6:42 AM

    It will NOT be boring! Thanks for helping these kids create an adventure using their minds and teams to push themselves, and have fun doing it. Everyone’s a winner here!

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