Looking forward to our week 1 Regional (first ever Central Illinois Regional) next week. 40 teams with a lot of past Regional, World, and Award winners so it should be competitive. Had a great year modeling with 100% of our fabricated parts modeled and then machined (by students) from prints (by students). I love seeing prints with machine oil on them. Had a great year improving efficiency using Windchill too, as we finally overcame some network roadblocks at the school and were able to move everyone in the same direction.
Still some work to do on BOM cleanup for cost and densities. But all in all a pretty solid build season for us.
What, the robot? Oh, yeah. Swerve drive, catapult shooter, two sided ball harvesting, differennt autonomous scenarios, truss pass, catching (well, we're built to catch but it is fair to say we haven't overly tested this in a game environment), shoot anywhere in the close zone. Not a tall defensive robot. Going to Centrla Illinois and Milwaukee.
Definitely had the team take advantage of pre-season lessons from PTC.