Sir MacHinery Robotics
Work hard! Have fun! Honor the King!   

 
  "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology"

2/23/09- The Knights meet again to decide what we are going to do with our pit area.

2/17/09- Sir MacHinery is shipped off without any trouble! We go to uncrate him at the Cox Covention Center on February 26th.

Goodbye Sir Mac!

Carrying Sir MacHinery to his crate.

How many guys does it take to open the tailgate?

How many people are we allowed to ship to the competition?

6:30 a.m. After working all night, David finally falls asleep!

4:30 a.m. Kale is connecting up the last few wires an mounting the battery to the frame.

2/16/09- 9:45 p.m. We are finally under the weight limit! Our robot lost 62 pounds in 9 hours, including 3 pounds of nuts and bolts!

9:15 p.m. Just a few more pounds to go! 

Everyone scrambles around cutting unecessary metal off and loosening bolts!

We weighed the robot and found that it was 60 pounds over the weight limit We had to start cutting off metal that was not absolutely necessary.

2/09/09 - 2/14/09- Crunch time! Somebody from the team was working on the robot every day this week!

Very late nights!

Building a crate to ship the robot in.

A moving robot!

2/07/09- We almost finished the frame!

All of the mentors and students working on the frame together.

Working on the real Fred, not the prototype!

2/05/09- We started working on the real robot! We built the base and then we realized that we needed more supplies. Oh no, there are only 2 more weeks left until we have to ship the robot!

A masked man showed up to help us!

Jenifer woodburned our logo into the wood of our operators console. Great job!

1/31/09- Finished building the prototype and held our shooting tryouts. Drue is going to be our payload specialist.

Kale is trying to get a basket!

Fred is not working! Back to the drawing board.

1/29/09- Started working on our conveyer belt system and almost finished our prototype.

The design team is putting together the conveyer belt, they named it Fred!

1/27/09- We were not able to meet tonight because we are all snowed in! This means that we will have a lot of extra work next time we meet.

1/24/09- We are now building a prototype of our robot to experiment the different ways we could use our design.

1/22/09- We have a completed trailer! Now we just need a robot to pull it!

The boys are already getting good use out of it!

Jenifer and Blake are finishing up the bumpers.

Working on screwing the base together.

1/20/09- We were able to start building a trailer so our payload specialist can pratice throwing the balls into it.

Drue is working on drawing out the bumpers so that they can be cut.

Blake is cutting the wood for the base of our trailer.

1/17/09- We went and bought supplies to build a trailer and a proto-type of our robot.

1/15/09- Thank you Shockwave, Team 1742, for letting us come over and learn! Special thanks to Art Waldenville and Jason Roush for answering our questions and showing our programmers how to work the LabView. Your team showed us gracious professionalism in action!

1/13/09- We worked on finishing our design from last meeting and were able to get the tank drive working on the robot.

Jason is trying out the joysticks.

Oh, no! Transmission problems!

The design team finalizing the robot design.

1/10/09- The Knights gather and work up a basic design for Sir MacHinery.

1/06/09- The team meets again and works on finishing the base so that we can start building the rest of the robot. We are going to decide our strategy for the game tonight.

Lots of discussion and planning.

Interfacing the cRIO

Checking all of the connections to make sure they are all good.

1/05/09- The team meets together for the first time after the kickoff and brainstorms. Dinner was very generously provided by Johnny Carino's.

1/04/09- Josiah downloads the programming software and starts figuring it out.

1/3/09- Team travels to Stillwater for US FIRST robotics kickoff!! We bring Sir MacHinery home and the work begins. Here are some pictures showing what the day held!

The beginning of the day, unloading tools from the van for the quick build session.

Opening up our kit of parts and looking at the instruction manual.

Our programming team downloading the software to our team laptop.

The framework team putting the transmission together...and taking it apart... and putting it back together again!

 Putting on the drive train, very greasy!

 The electronics team wiring the cRIO and driver station.

Making progress!

Our team photographer hard at work.

Stillwater has now become the world's largest kickoff!

Our finished robot base! Now comes the hard part...building the rest!

12/30/08- We are making our lists and checking them twice. Packing our bag full of tools. We are signing our consent and release forms and reading the safety manuals in preparation for the January 3rd kickoff!!!!!!!