Congratulations Team100!!! (and Sequoia Robotics ...)

Two of our members are in Atlanta as part of Team100 competing in the 2008 FIRST championship. Team 100 finished second in the Curie bracket!

The Woodside/Carlmont robotics club has been very welcoming to us this year. FIRST is a whole different scale of robotics than what we work on at our meetings. Our members were key contributors to the mechanical and software development.

We're hoping in a year or two to field our own FIRST team, of course keeping close ties to Team100.

Meeting Notes 2008 April 13

We continue to work on mechanical assembly of our 'bots. Members are finding it it every bit as challenging to put the pieces together as to solder the electronics! The cool thing is that the success in learning electronics gives them confidence they can do the mechanical assembly.

No meeting next week. Next post will explain why. Week after that we might finish 'bot assembly.

Meeting Notes 2008 April 06

Spent the day

• finishing solder of components
  
• planning the mounting them onto our cardboard chasis
• soldering an extra boarduino, caps onto motors, and making cables
  

The whisker sensors will be a pain to mount onto the bot. They normally mount by soldering them onto a PC board. But we don't have that. We'll either glue them down, or press fit them into holes or figure something else out.

We would have got more mounted, but I forgot to bring 4-40 hardware to mount a few of the pieces.

Next time we might finish construction. Then it's on to programming.

In a few weeks we may be ready to move on to mini sumo kits.

Thanks Tech Shop!

Just a quick note thanking TechShop - www.techshop.ws - for their sponsorship.

We haven't figured out exactly where it's going long term. For now they give us a place to meet on weekends, and access to small tools. Later we hope to use more of their cool tools, and they seem more than willing for us to do that. We both want this to be a long term relationship, and figure we'll see where the ride takes us.