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Week 5, February 12
Week 5 is complete! The Birch Bots are working hard to finish our robot, and build season is flying by. This week, we added bumpers to our bot. However, we then realized that our bumpers were interfering with our intake system. So, we had to correct our mistake and extend our perimeter on our robot.[…]
Week 3, January 29
Today the Birch Bots completed our third week of building. On Monday, we developed a shooter design for our robot, paying close attention to detail so that we could create exactly what we envisioned. Installing motors and wheels to propel the boulder, our shooting mechanism became more advanced by the day. Most of our new team members[…]
Day 7, January 15
Today marks the end of the first week of build season! We’ve made great progress on the beginning of our robot as well as our website. We completely re-organized our lab, made sure that everything is where it needs to be, and ready to continue our building on Monday! Here, you can see a picture of[…]
Day 3, January 13
Today marks the third day of build season for the Birch Bots! New members got familiar with each other and the lab by completing “gofer” runs (small retrieving tasks) for veteran members and reorganizing the entire lab. Although this work is tedious, it is necessary not only for space reasons, but forming the foundation of their skill[…]
Monty Madness 2015
Having recently competed in the 10th annual, and last ever, Monty Madness event, the Birch Bots continue to grow as a team both on and off the field. In what was likely our best performance yet, team 5421 found themselves in the top third of the standings for much of the competition. Despite a devastating[…]
Rookie All-Stars!
The Birch Bots are in business! The 2015 NYC Regional FRC Rookie All-Star Award winners are heading to St. Louis for the championship rounds! The Birch Bots could not be more thankful to FIRST and the FRC community for welcoming us in to the world of robotics with open arms and providing us with great[…]
Week 6
This week the team focused on more driving practice. We again did this in our auditorium, making stacks of totes and putting a recycling container on top, but this time we set up mock ramps that the stacks needed to be placed upon. We connected the camera and then put a “turtle shell” on top[…]
Week 5
This week started out being about driving practice. We practiced in our auditorium, making stacks of totes and putting a recycling container on top. However, we observed that we were having an issue with the sliding mechanism and, in contrast to what we initially thought, it did not slide easily. Because of this, we spent the[…]
Week 4
The team surpassed all its expectations this week! We now have a driving robot! In addition to the code being completed, a sliding mechanism that does its job the best was finally found, so we no longer had to worry about too much friction getting the mechanism caught. Now that we had the sliding mechanism, we installed a[…]
Week 3
This week the most progress was made (so far, hopefully). The entire electronics board was instituted by the team. Well, not exactly. Only one person really worked with the wires. But that’s ok. We realized that we could not spend all of our time teaching every student about electronics due to the short time we[…]