“It was great to share my last Bag n’ Tag day with my robotics family!” -Abbitude

“The cake is a Lie! But so is the bag n’ tag!” – Alex T

“How many robotics students does it take to put a robot in a bag? The world may never know.” – Em B

Me: “Abby, it’s our last bag n’ tag!”  Abby: “You’re gonna make me cry.” – Liz B

“Last bag and tag until I become a mentor, I will miss all our shenanigans.” – Mark E.

“Holy crap I’m tired…” –Nate K.

“termenun…numeruner….we’re not ti….zzzzzzzzz” ~ Alivia W. and Mackenzie D.

“Well…. This is different than Jr. High robotics” – Gabe H

“What bag & tag? I was too busy sorting the bag of punishment at Maria’s insistence.” O_O -Natalie F.

“I like lightsabers.” – Kyla M

“milling, milling, milling, still milling” – Gavin C

“Celebrating with epic lightsaber battle.” – Kenzie

“After 4 years, I’ve seen many robots packaged, and my last being the most entertaining and enthusiastic.” -Darren VB

“I don’t know what to write…… so…. I’m cool guys…. oh, and Emily, you will never be Em. And the power cord won.” ~Cathleen VB

“Natalie and I are going to finish organizing the punishment bag.” -Maria V.

“NOOOOOOOOO!!!” -Natalie F.

“There’s a lot of weight in that, we can weight reduce it (some more)” ~Mr C

“It’s your team’s turn to do the blog and you’ve been elected as today’s victim” Mr V

This brings to an end our daily posts for a few days while we take a much deserved break but stay tuned for a video of the bagging and ensuing insanity.

I suppose this is our final push for the finish line: in about four hours, we need to have the robot in some bag, and then we only get to look at it longingly until competition. Undoubtably, there will be some things that we still haven’t… optimized… by the time Bearmageddon’s bagged, but I’d say we’re making good progress in our mad dash for completion.

Mr. Harpster, Justin and I have been slowly making progress, testing our code against the actual robot.

For all of the things we have yet to finish tweaking, one thing has been dubbed complete until competition: the bumpers! After working on these things for weeks, and after a few recent days of vexation, they are [acceptable] for the championship robot!

Here’s to the last few hours of the grind!

~Taran T.

This is the final installment in the Build Season Weekly Updates. We’ll be posting more updates to show our post-ship (or rather bag n’ tag) progress.

After nearly 6 weeks in development, Bearmageddon is fully capable of crossing the bump in Rebound Rumble.

We worked on the pneumatics on the practice robot in order to have two completely working robots.

Alivia also milled out a few last parts.

Also, I tried to run the chain that runs the turret lift on the practice robot, but sadly, the distances were different on the two robots, and the length of chain that was needed is not possible, so we had to make the holes adjustable for tensioning.

Oh, and one more thing… THE COUNTDOWN ON THE WHITEBOARD HAS STARTED!!!!

~Cathleen

Well, ship date is finally here, and everyone is incredibly tired…

However, work must continue, even down to the wire. We finally ran full tests with our practice and competition robots, including ramp balancing, rail crossing, and fall preventing.

We also fashioned a makeshift camera mount for the shooter on the competition robot.

We mounted our turret, shooter, and all the pneumatics on our competition robot, and are almost ready to ship, with just a little work to be done in these last few hours.

…and somehow this happened

Hopefully, our robot will be completely up and running by tonight, as we do not have much to do, and we look forward to the regionals…..and sleep.

-Ben F.

Our friends, Skunkworks, from Aviation High School were also there.  They demonstrated their 2011 robot while we shared our 2012 practice robot.

The students were very lucky to have the opportunity to have a behind the scenes tour of the Rapid Prototyping Production area if this specific Boeing plant. Here we learned about various forms of prototyping with a wide selection of materials.  One main idea behind most of the machines was a 3D printing style of prototyping.

Unfortunately, we were unable to take pictures due to security policies of Boeing. Although, we were given some fancy rooks from the special tour, and took a picture of it back at our lab.

We were excited to have this opportunity and once again thank Boeing for being one of our major sponsors.

Today is mostly focussed on tying up loose ends for the robots. The phrase, ‘loose ends’ can be defined in a number of ways, from checking up on weight reduction to milling out those last few parts.

A group of students and mentors went to Boeing today and brought along our new practice robot. They took the opportunity to demonstrate a few  of the functions of our robot, as well as meet some great people.

When they came back, they were able to give the rest of the team suggestions about how to make the robot work better. We took the advice, and Team Tiger (my team) spent today making improvements to our part, and catching up on any last minute fabrication.

In this Evening at Home basket, you’ll find many fun activities you can do with your children. The basket has from puzzles to board games, and you’re sure to have fun!

This gadgets basket has all sorts of small gadgets, from headphones, to lanterns. You’ll find a use for everything in this basket around your home.