Author: FIX IT

This year’s Game Challenge: our guess

Baskets hang at each of the four corners. Part of the game is to score game elements into these baskets. While your partner is scoring in a basket (from a certain distance away, perhaps), you position your robot beneath the basket to collect the elements. That act alone may give you points or your robot can then score those elements in another way.

Robotics summer camp for 9–14 year-olds, Aug 22–26

Summer Camp 1
Would you like to learn to work with robots this summer? The Mayan Adventure Robotics Camp is a one-week day camp to learn about building and programming LEGO MINDSTORM robots. The leaders will be local robotics team, 3491 FIX IT—a group of high-school students enthusiastic about robotics.
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World Championships: Day 3

Today was Tiara Friday, so everyone wore tiaras on their hats. Helen and Guy, since they were attending the Dean’s List Lunch, drove for the first match. Unfortunately, the phone on the robot controller crashed, most likely due to a motor controller returning bad values. We mistakenly thought this to be a fluke. During our last match of the day, that motor controller disconnected, not allowing us to use the arm properly. Clearly, we’ve now replaced that motor controller.
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