The Rocket Boosters, Inc. is the booster organization supporting Rocket Robotics. It consists of parents and community members who want to provide support to the team in various ways. One of the main elements of FIRST Robotics is partnership with the community which is where all of our volunteer mentors and funding comes from. Many programs including our own are completely funded by donations and grants. Even though we are housed within the South […]
Kick-Off has ended, and competition season for FIRST Robotics has begun. The Team has received the rules for this year’s Star Wars-themed Infinite Recharge game. We have now begun planning and building our robot. One of the tasks we are designing for the robot to complete is shooting balls into a tall tower. This is will be our first priority to start designing. (Jackson Eckert, Ethan Deibert, Emma Nall, Emili Gaqo) As seen above, […]
Right now it is January 22 2019 meaning we have had just over 2 weeks to work on our bot. We already have a working and driving frame for our bot as well as a camera that connects to our computers allowing us to practice driving in the other rooms. We also have designed and are working on the parts for a crane structure that will have a multi propose tool to grab both the […]
Our team has just kicked off our 2018 robotics season! We have many days to come in this season but we are very excited for this year and what is yet to come. This years theme is Deep Space and the season is just getting started.
The Rocket Robotics team has been working hard to make sure that the Robot will be able to function when competition comes, which will be next week. However, something exciting has happened: the mayor has come to join us! We showed him some of the stuff we can do, especially the robot for this year. At the end, we took a group photo!
Hello, and welcome back to the Weekly Wednesday! This week, we are preparing for the Scrimmage event in 14 days. We will debrief everything that has happened since last Wednesday right here! Today’s update post should include a lot of information for you. Programming Starting out with programming, Vision work for Autonomous is complete and needs to be tested. Multifunction for robot drive, which makes it faster to complete complex robot tasks. We are hoping […]
Hello! And welcome back. Since our last post, we said we will start having weekly wednesday posts to keep you up to date! Last week, we were working on the drive-train, along with its programming, as well as the Standard and more. You can read more about that information in the last weekly post found here. This week in the shop, our metal and wood shop team is working on mounting the wheels and wrapping up the […]
The team has been busy with numerous things in the past month. This week, we are focusing on the drive-train, the drive-train is the components between the front wheels and the engine. The manufacturing team is constructing the drive-train out of used and salvaged aluminum donated by the school. While the programming team constructs the code for the camera systems, as well as the drive-train for the front wheel axis. While the drive-train is being worked on, […]
It’s been a while since our last team update. If you can remember, our last post had said that our team was working on our new pit project, ‘Super Pit’ as we like to call it. Our last update post had explained the project. To summarize, the pit project was split into two parts: a part for tools and a part for storage. The tool section will contain things that we can use to change […]
It’s been a while, and the announcement of the 2016 Robotics competition has arrived. After watching the reveal at Waukesha Technical College, with a couple other teams that were in our area. This new competition has proved to be quite different from last year, with a variety of things that make it more exciting than the last. The team is now looking towards completing a mock field using information given by the FIRST Robotics website, found […]