by Dallas Downing This Fall was a productive semester for RoboNav. The team made great progress on Swervi, the newest IGVC robot, since plans for it started in the Spring of 2020. As the manufacturing and assembly are nearing completion, the team has also made great progress on the electrical components for the diagnostic system….
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RoboCup – Fall Semester Update
by Kyla Qi RoboCup 2022 is 7 months away, and the team is hard at work tuning gameplay and building their second fleet. Having achieved a stable platform for the software team to test on, the electrical and mechatronics subteams are making good progress on the second fleet, with the intent of using the new…
RoboRacing – Fall Semester Update
Being the RoboJackets team with the first competition this school year, RoboRacing has been busy learning and improving! The team has been preparing to enter evGrand Prix Autonomous, the go-kart scale autonomous racing competition, starting all the way back in 2019 after the conclusion of Sparkfun AVC. This two year time frame gave the team…
RoboWrestling – Fall Semester Update
by Jonathan Spalten RoboWrestling has been busy the last semester designing their newest generation of 3 kg Sumo Bot, dubbed Spici. The biggest change with this new robot is that the plow is hinged. RoboJackets has iterated on a few plow designs throughout their history, beginning with a compound plow with a rigid aluminum section…
BattleBots – Fall Semester Update
by Jonathan Spalten If you’ve been reading the newsletter, you’d know that the 3lbers in BattleBots have been hard at work this past semester working on their 3lb robots and getting them ready for Motorama 2022 in February. These are not the only robots that BattleBots makes and have been working on. We’d like to…
RoboWrestling’s New Radio
The robots made by RoboJackets for combat robotics are small and heavily armored, which prevent having a display or interface to read data or make changes on the fly. But, RoboWrestling hopes to tackle that problem with their radio board project. For the past few semesters, electrical members have been working diligently on a custom…
FIRST Tech Challenge #5773 Design Discussion
While promoting STEM education and career opportunities through tabling at events is a large part of RoboJackets outreach, so is educating members of our community that are already engaged in robotics. RoboJackets had the opportunity to offer mentorship to FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Team 5773 Ink and Metal, from Northern California. The team is entirely…
Jack and Jill Atlanta Career Talk
Meeting with and educating K-12 students about STEM and career opportunities in STEM is an important component of RoboJackets Outreach. This mainly takes the form of giving talks and tabling at maker fairs and other events. Most recently, RoboJackets was invited to participate in a virtual career day for middle school students, held by the…
Battlebots 3lb Design Reviews and Design Progress
Every year in the BattleBots subteam of RoboJackets, newly recruited RoboJackets form into small teams to work together to design and build 3lb combat robots. Last year, instead of going to Motorama and building standard 3lb combat robots, the new members built lighter robots using a limited set of materials and only competed against themselves…
RoboResearch 2021 Vol 1
This month, we’re reviving a series of articles we started last year: RoboResearch. RoboResearch seeks to highlight students in RoboJackets that participate in research outside of RoboJackets, be it robotics research or otherwise. We’re also interested in hearing how their experiences at RoboJackets help them in their research. This month, we’ll be featuring Tan Gemicioglu…