Living on the East Coast of the United States is not always so great during Build Season. Between last night and today, the area where South Jersey Robotics is located got approximately two feet of snow. That's CRAZY!!! It puts the team at a disadvantage because we only have about two and a half more weeks until we have to ship the robot. And we only have it driving over the bump right now.
The team was not able to get into the workshop as planned on Friday night or today at all, and depending on if the Community College, which is where we hold our meetings, is closed or not, we might not be able to get into the workshop on Monday as well! Let's hope that this snow melts by then and we are able to get into the workshop to finish the robot in enough time!!
17 more days until Ship Date!
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Hip Hip Hurray!
The robot is now officially driving! :) We got it driving last night, and was able to get it to go over the bump today.
Our robot weighed in at 96.2 pounds, giving us 23.8 pounds to work with before we reach the max weight limit of 120 pounds.
Unfortunately this is all I am able to post right now. We are trying to keep the progress of our robot somewhat under wraps so other teams don't find out what we are capable of doing just yet. Once we ship our robot, a picture of our robot will be posted on here as soon as possible, along with possibly a video of our robot driving.
I'll do my best to post again before we ship. Hope all the other teams are doing well so far!!
19 more days til Ship Date!
Our robot weighed in at 96.2 pounds, giving us 23.8 pounds to work with before we reach the max weight limit of 120 pounds.
Unfortunately this is all I am able to post right now. We are trying to keep the progress of our robot somewhat under wraps so other teams don't find out what we are capable of doing just yet. Once we ship our robot, a picture of our robot will be posted on here as soon as possible, along with possibly a video of our robot driving.
I'll do my best to post again before we ship. Hope all the other teams are doing well so far!!
19 more days til Ship Date!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
New LuNaTeCs!
The LuNaTeCs have five new students! The team is very happy to have these new students, as that brings us up to a total of 15 students. The new students are:
Shannon Kirk
Amber Burkentine
Eric Davis
Eric Vignali
Walter Blackniak
We are happy to have these new students on the team, and hope they enjoy the FIRST experience!
Shannon Kirk
Amber Burkentine
Eric Davis
Eric Vignali
Walter Blackniak
We are happy to have these new students on the team, and hope they enjoy the FIRST experience!
Friday, January 8, 2010
FRC Kick Off
The First Robotics Competition Kick Off is tomorrow morning. The robotics team is expected to be at the Community College at 9 in the morning to watch the game animation and discuss the game itself. Our sister team 3151 is going to be there as well with us. Watch the animation tomorrow and give us feed back on what you think about the game! Here is the link for the animation. Can't wait to hear your feed back!
Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
About the LuNaTeCs
The LuNaTeCs Team 316 is a small team in rural South Jersey that was started in 1999. The team consists of approximately twelve to sixteen students. The students come from the five local high schools in our area, majoring in engineering, writing, and culinary in some cases. The team has twelve mentors, all ranging from different types of professions.
LuNaTeCs stands for Learning Under Nurturing Adults Teaching Engineering Concepts and Skills. The team is a part of an organization called FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). There are over 3000 teams that have been a part of FIRST since its inception in 1992.
Each January, the LuNaTeCs will anxiously await the revealing of the new "game" that is to be played that year. They are given 6 weeks to build the robot before shipping it out for the initial inspection.
Building the 2009 robot, Sammy Su.
The team spends over 15 hours every week in the workshop building the robot in those six weeks. Each student plays a vital part in building the robot. Some work on programming; others do electrical work; one student welds the robot with the help of a mentor. Not every student is required to work "hands on" on the robot. A few students direct their focus solely on Team Spirit for competition season.
In March, the team has their first competition. The team usually attends the Finger Lakes Regional in Rochester, NY. The second competition that the team enjoys going to is the Philadelphia Regional in Philadelphia, PA. The goal each year for the small team is to get the chance to go to Championships in Atlanta, GA.
The Drive Team and Back Up Drive Team for the LuNaTeCs after the Finger Lakes Regional 2009.
The LuNaTeCs participate in many community things each year. They do an Easter Seal project each year to help out people who have disabilities. The team also participates in road clean ups and collects plastic bottle caps as part of an effort to help out little kids who need dialysis or chemotherapy treatment.
The LuNaTeCs participating in the local 4H fair during the summer of 2009.
Thank you for reading the brief introduction to the LuNaTeCs. The team hopes you will continue to check up on their progress as they continue to change the lives of high school students in South Jersey.
LuNaTeCs stands for Learning Under Nurturing Adults Teaching Engineering Concepts and Skills. The team is a part of an organization called FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). There are over 3000 teams that have been a part of FIRST since its inception in 1992.
Each January, the LuNaTeCs will anxiously await the revealing of the new "game" that is to be played that year. They are given 6 weeks to build the robot before shipping it out for the initial inspection.
Building the 2009 robot, Sammy Su.
The team spends over 15 hours every week in the workshop building the robot in those six weeks. Each student plays a vital part in building the robot. Some work on programming; others do electrical work; one student welds the robot with the help of a mentor. Not every student is required to work "hands on" on the robot. A few students direct their focus solely on Team Spirit for competition season.
In March, the team has their first competition. The team usually attends the Finger Lakes Regional in Rochester, NY. The second competition that the team enjoys going to is the Philadelphia Regional in Philadelphia, PA. The goal each year for the small team is to get the chance to go to Championships in Atlanta, GA.
The Drive Team and Back Up Drive Team for the LuNaTeCs after the Finger Lakes Regional 2009.
The LuNaTeCs participate in many community things each year. They do an Easter Seal project each year to help out people who have disabilities. The team also participates in road clean ups and collects plastic bottle caps as part of an effort to help out little kids who need dialysis or chemotherapy treatment.
The LuNaTeCs participating in the local 4H fair during the summer of 2009.
Thank you for reading the brief introduction to the LuNaTeCs. The team hopes you will continue to check up on their progress as they continue to change the lives of high school students in South Jersey.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Team Update: May 28, 2009
Here is a review of what we did this week in robotics.
Tuesday:
The orders for the light bulbs were due on Tuesday. Anybody who did not turn one, it is unfortunately too late to turn one in. Mrs. Callow had to get all the order sheets to the company yesterday.
We started to clean the room. Not much progress got done, but some was started.
Towards the end of the night, many students were discussing the pros and cons of going up to Boston in August. Mrs. Danner had talked about going up to Boston because we would be able to tour the iRobot factory. Ally said that there wasn’t much to do in Boston and that she would rather go down to Wildwood. This sparked a long discussion between the students, which meant that not much cleaning was done.
Thursday:
Mrs. Kirk, Mr. Mohrfeld, and Mr. Jerry started to clean up the room. Mr. Hinde, Mr. Don, and Mr. Weick were not happy with any of the students because the accelerometer and gyro were not put on the robot before PARC and still are not on the robot. Sammy and Billy started to research information about the two and to find out how to put the two pieces of electronics onto the robot for our next two off season competitions.
Mikey was learning how to program in Java because next year the robot will be programmed in Java. He was using a program called “Alice” to learn Java. If you have any interest in learning programming for next year, download “Alice” and mess around with it at home. After a few minutes, Billy went over to learn Java as well.
Rachel and Shannon worked on the letter to send out to sponsors. They worked as a pair for most of the night. Every now and then, one of them would stop working on the letter to help clean up some things.
Collin was mostly watching the mentors work on robot tonight, looking up information about PID (Collin, care to share with the team what you learned please?). Whenever somebody wasn’t doing something like working with Java, working on a letter, or researching things, they were either helping Mrs. Kirk sweep up the room or watching the mentors work on the robot.
Tuesday:
The orders for the light bulbs were due on Tuesday. Anybody who did not turn one, it is unfortunately too late to turn one in. Mrs. Callow had to get all the order sheets to the company yesterday.
We started to clean the room. Not much progress got done, but some was started.
Towards the end of the night, many students were discussing the pros and cons of going up to Boston in August. Mrs. Danner had talked about going up to Boston because we would be able to tour the iRobot factory. Ally said that there wasn’t much to do in Boston and that she would rather go down to Wildwood. This sparked a long discussion between the students, which meant that not much cleaning was done.
Thursday:
Mrs. Kirk, Mr. Mohrfeld, and Mr. Jerry started to clean up the room. Mr. Hinde, Mr. Don, and Mr. Weick were not happy with any of the students because the accelerometer and gyro were not put on the robot before PARC and still are not on the robot. Sammy and Billy started to research information about the two and to find out how to put the two pieces of electronics onto the robot for our next two off season competitions.
Mikey was learning how to program in Java because next year the robot will be programmed in Java. He was using a program called “Alice” to learn Java. If you have any interest in learning programming for next year, download “Alice” and mess around with it at home. After a few minutes, Billy went over to learn Java as well.
Rachel and Shannon worked on the letter to send out to sponsors. They worked as a pair for most of the night. Every now and then, one of them would stop working on the letter to help clean up some things.
Collin was mostly watching the mentors work on robot tonight, looking up information about PID (Collin, care to share with the team what you learned please?). Whenever somebody wasn’t doing something like working with Java, working on a letter, or researching things, they were either helping Mrs. Kirk sweep up the room or watching the mentors work on the robot.
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