FRC Team NOMADNOMAD is officially three weeks into the 2022 build season! The past several weeks has been filled with excitement and determination as team members strive to build a robot worthy of a regional championship. It has been all hands-on deck for finishing the robot CAD design and choosing a climb solution for this season’s game! Meanwhile, the mechanical […]
Team NOMAD is back in the workshop again this weekend! Over the past two days the CAD sub team has been working tirelessly and making progress on our robot design. With laptops sprawled in every direction, the CAD team has been extremely diligent and focused. On the other side of the workshop, however, NOMAD team members have been machining custom […]
Team NOMAD had our first full workshop weekend! NOMAD is glad to be back in full swing, and to move forward in the design process. While staring at computer screens and cracking jokes, the CAD subteam is working hard to design bumpers and the robot drive base. The Mechanical team, while patiently waiting for the CAD designs, […]
After a year of waiting, the 2022 First robotics season kick-off has finally arrived! The morning started with a team pancake breakfast complete with sausage, homemade blueberry syrup and piles of fresh pancakes. As team members continued to arrive, the feeling of excitement leapt from person to person which only heightened the anticipation. Finally, the countdown to the virtual […]
These past weeks have been incredibly intense, with all sub-teams pushing themselves to innovate and work on the best possible solutions. As we reach the halfway mark in the competition, Team NOMAD sub-teams like the mechanical team are working on the ladder mechanism and are collaborating to construct elaborate mechanisms to overcome adversity. As the […]
It’s a new year for team NOMAD, and we are so grateful to have started it off with LA Fleet Week on Labor Day weekend. Our mechanic and software teams spent a few weeks in preparation for the competition fine tuning our lift, autonomous, and grabber. When competitions started, everything worked smoothly, but towards the […]
Have a computer monitor mounted at the front of our pit instead of the back to show off images that represent the build season. Have an area just outside of the pit for conversations with judges. Keep seeking sponsors through out the year. Start earlier if possible because the deadlines happen so quickly for rookie teams. […]
By the end of week two, we continued to play with prototyping our grabber and testing out methods to lift and lower a cube. We also spent time CADing different design options and discussing the importance of each robot task. There may have also been some food and foosball going on.
This week our team made a lot of progress on our robot. We started off with a few different ideas and prototypes, which we then put to use on our robot just to see how they would work out. We also decided that we were going to be using pneumatics on our robot, so everyone had […]
We enjoyed visiting the Daedalus (FRC Team 2839) workshop in our first week of the build season. We were in need of some parts to start prototyping our robot and Daedalus was gracious in offering to lend us some parts. Daedalus has a very well organized workshop. Our team felt like kids in a candy […]