Homestretch!

The Robotics Team has a midnight deadline on Tuesday to finish up their build. Good luck to all of you!

The team has been working hard these last weeks. Here are Andrew and Jackson showing me their basketball launching solution this afternoon:


Despite everyone's huge efforts, I caught the Engineering Gnome napping...


This guy is hard to catch in person. He must be wiped out from all the Engineering work!

Game On!

The FIRST Robotics competative season is underway. CHS has the strongest team yet with a core of seasoned veterans as well as a selection of sharp newcomers.

The team has their own workspace so I enjoyed their suprise visit for a meeting after class on Tuesday.

This year's challenge involves scoring points by putting foam basketballs through baskets. It looks like the team is starting to refine their vision for the project!:

Cheaper Robots

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What is the significance to the local economy if the cost of robotic machines are dropping with time?

Be specific with your answer.

FIRST Robotics - 2011 Game

FIRST stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. Thursday, Friday and Saturday saw the FIRST Robotics Competition come to San Diego. Our CHS team, Crown City Robotics, have been working diligently all year and have fielded a robot for the event.

The artist formerly known as the San Diego Sports Arena:



This was a new experience for me and I was amazed by the production value of the event. Here's a view of the competition floor:



The other half of the arena floor was dedicated to the team pits. Teams came from as far as Hawaii:



Stay tuned for a post that shows off our team in action as well as some information regarding the rules of the game it's self.

Engineering Gnome wuz here!!!

"Fry a Servo!"

Good luck to Crown City Robotics, the CHS Robotics Team! They embark today on the beginning of their weekend long competition at the complex formerly known as the Sports Arena.



If this were a stage show we'd say "break a leg". What's a good robotics related expression we could use? "Fry a servo!"? "Burn out a motherboard!"?

Whatever the case, best of luck!