Team 3418

Wheels Down in 6 It’s crunch time at RoboRiot. Including tonight, we’ve only got six meetings before Sussex, meaning we only have six more nights to get a competition chassis assembled, wired, and programmed. We’re well on our way, but the work goes on. We’ve got a complete chassis frame thanks to the CAD and…

Nose to the Grindstone Hello all, and welcome back to the Mohawk Minute! The gears on the RoboRiot machine are turning as hard as ever this week. The CAD team is finishing up chassis designs for our competition robot, which is fantastic for our fabrication team. The fabrication team has been working on a new…

Swerve As always, we’re hard at work here at RoboRiot. “Busy” is basically our middle name by now, but “RoboBusyRiot” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Bad joke? Yeah, bad joke. Anyway, here’s what we’ve been up to for the past week: the programmers have been hard at work with our triangle bot.…

Power Up This week, things are ramping up even further here at RoboRiot. We’ve been hard at work with prototypes and designs for our robot. This year, we’re hoping to integrate a swerve drive on our robot, and the fabrication team has been prototyping ways to make that happen. Our CAD and Programming teams have…

*Infinite Recharge* – Powered by “Star Wars: Force for Change” Kickoff has come and gone. With the start of the season comes the need to strategize and plan. Our entire team has been working together, sharing ideas for designs and prototypes that can achieve the goals we need to for this year’s game.  In *Infinite…

Pre-Build Season For our Pre-build Season, each team has been working on some basics and teaching new students how we run things in RoboRiot. Here’s a rundown of what we’ve been up to so far: Basecamp is a communications platform that RoboRiot uses to coordinate projects among team members and other sub-teams. For newcomers, learning…