Our robot has come a long way since the start of January. We have made a great deal of progress every week, always learning something new. This year was our first year ever using a belt system to take in Power Cells from the floor to the top of our robot. It is also...

As a senior in high-school is year it is very sad to think it is my last year on the team. I've been a part of this team for 3 years now and I have learned a lot. A list of running things that I have learned are technical things like how to build a robot, CADing part o...

The situation we are facing today is nothing like the modern world has seen before. Global communities are trying their best to solve this rapidly grown, dangerous, and complex problem surrounding the spread of COVID-19. Governments, individuals, and companies alike ar...

Wednesday Jan 15th blog

Today during our meetings we worked on the drive-train of the robot. The goal of the meeting was to get the drive motors on. We started by first putting churros on the robot, so that way we have a way to make sure that the robot is straight and d...

Monday Jan 13th

Today we discussed on the idea of our mechanism intake idea. We realized that if we attempted to hold 5 power cells then one would be sticking out. That would be bad for intaking since we would not have full control of 5 power cells like we wanted to. So...

For today's meeting we started to work on the chassis of the robot. We got the kit chassis and decided that we wanted to go with the long way. The chassis based would be 32 inches on the sides and the front and back would 27 inches long. We then cut the front bar so th...

Wednesday, Jan 8th
Today we continued to work in our separate groups. For spinning the control panel the group worked on using wheel for spinning the control panel. They used drills to simulate motors and attach wheels to the end. They thought about using two wheels a...

Jan 7th
Today we finalized design groups. Some students worked on spinning the control panel while the rest of the team worked on worked on in-taking and out-taking the power cell. For the power cell groups we split into 3 groups. One group worked creating a belt type...

Jan 4th
Welcome to FIRST 5125 First ever build season blog. We are going to go over what our team is doing everyday when it comes to the robot. 
Our team created a kick off guide for other frc teams and it talks about what other teams should do and what we do. 
Every y...

Happy new decade! I have never been the type of person to be excited for a new year, but robotics has been able to change that. Along with a new blank slate in life experiences, comes a new game. This year is especially special. In addition to the new game being announ...