Week 6 of build season is just wrapping up as we head into the next week towards STOP build day on February 20th. Although our build season has been busy and full of learning opportunities, we have had some monumental changes for the team.

Mechanical was able to complete two robots and have learned important skills and necessities moving forward as a team.

Revolutionary development took place in programming and is currently being implemented. Many of the sensors established this year will assist us in our autonomous and teleop code.

Scouting is testing a newly implemented system on tablets that has been proven to be reliable and a potential solution for the challenges many teams face scouting.

Business and safety have also created some fantastic themed promotional materials to go along with this year’s game, PowerUp and giving our team an arcade-like appearance.

This week, our team has shifted our focus to making it a priority to develop a stronger robot with its current capabilities.

With this in mind, each team department has really solidified a lot of their projects and are in the midst of preparing to spend the last week of build season practicing for competition.

Mechanical has updated their CAD model to our most recent plans and are continuing to work on building two robots for the season.

Programming has completed projects with various sensors for competition use and has been successful with development and testing. Additionally, scouting has completed their forms and data analysis strategies that are ready to be tested by other departments.

In our business department, students have made official submissions with our 8-bit arcade themed logos as well as implementing the “arcade” look to our promotional materials.

Additionally, the safety team pulled yet another winner from our weekly safety drawing. Great job, Skynet for making safety first!

-Skynet Team 2550

That may be the story of most STEM students but for FRC students, we are just wrapping up week 2 of the build season which means our days go a little bit more like this: Eat. Sleep. Robotics. Repeat.

We have completed almost all of our designs and prototypes as well as almost two drive bases. Our programmers have taken the lead on our sensor and vision development and many other team departments are in the heat of their current projects. Let the countdown continue…only 4 more weeks of build season.

-Team 2550 Skynet

This year, we have had an increase of students with strong talents
for various works of art which is an excellent addition to the team. A
lot of times people associate robotics with solely STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) but STEAM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) incorporates unique
perspectives from students.

Week 1 down which means that we only have 5 more weeks left! This year, Skynet has taken a different approach to our robot development. We are currently developing, prototyping, modeling, and simulating our designs before building our robot which will allow us to develop a more thorough design.

Our programming and scouting department have been working on sensor support and development for both the robot and our new scouting system this year.

Our safety team has been enthusiastic in promoting safe practices as a team and maintaining good organization for our important safety supplies.

Skynet has a very talented group of students and every year grows as new students join the team. This year, we have had an increase of students with incredible artistic abilities.

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to finalize our robot designs and work through week 2 of the build season.

Good luck teams!
-Team 2550 Skynet

If you can’t make it to kickoff in person, remember you can still access the 2018 Kickoff Broadcast from your home.