Stormgears went to the Girl Scouts Stem Fest on April 29th, 2023. The event started at 8 am and we left at 1:30 pm on Saturday. We brought our past robot to represent the kinds of robots we learn to build in our robotics team. We taught some kids how to use a joystick to […]
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April 29th, 2023 Stormgears is volunteering to teach young Girl Scouts about engineering. We will present our past robots and demonstrate how it functions. We will also engage the kids with separate activities such as building a tower with only spaghetti and marshmallows. It will teach them about the basics of engineering and team leadership.
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This year we have won the Engineering Inspiration Award, qualifying us once again for the FIRST Robotics Championship. We are so excited about this amazing opportunity and we are charched up to go to Houston, Texas for competion. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/middlesex-county-robotics-club_first-morethanrobots-nefirst-activity-7050875699242377216-x78Q?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
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On April 7 to 8, 2023 as a team we organized a booth to compete in the District Championships for the Engineering Inspiration Award. Previous Next In our booth, we had different activities to engage people including a scavenger hunt, bristle bot kits with race tracks, 3D printing names, and a raffle to win a
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On October 15, 2022, the Girl Scouts of Central and Western Mass got an opportunity to learn all about FRC Robots, see a robot demonstration, and make a marshmallow and spaghetti structure activities in the Expo Hall with Stormgears FRC 5422! https://www.gscwm.org/en/events/special-events/geek.html
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Week 8 & 9: Neopixels:We had two different types of LEDs on the robot, so this week, we created a class that supported both types of LEDs so that the robot could show colors accurately. Buttonboard: The final version of the board was put together this week. This required help from all teams to finalize
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Week 6 & 7: Button Board / Control:We reached functionality with a few buttons, though the layout was not finalized. Holding down on the buttons now activates a certain designated command.Neopixels:We can now control different sections of neopixels, and make them constant or blinking through holding down buttons. Pneumatics: The Pneumatic Control Module, or PCM,
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Week 5: Button Board:The button board class was created, but functionality has not been added yet. Arm: LiDAR: We set up the initial StormNet subsystem, even though we are coding it later. to house the LiDAR sensor. The sensor would be used to determine how far the game pieces are from the robot, and to
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Week 4: Gyro Command: The initial work on the Gyro Command was made this week. It used the pitch and roll to determine the tilt of the robot to help it scale the charging station. For example, the greater the tilt, the faster the robot will scale the ramp. Pneumatics: In 2019, our team used
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Week 2 & 3 : Arm: The calculations for this arm were started this week. These were used to find the x and y coordinates of the gripper based on the angles: Previous Next On 1/15, software had a group meeting to outline all jobs and distribute the work among the team. We broke down
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