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Team 1047 Summer Camp
Taught by: Team Echoes - Benjamin Filippenko and Sergiy Nesterenko
The Task:
Build a robot that meets the following criteria:
- The robot is quick and maneuverable
- The robot is able to hold a bottle of water while driving
- A touch sensor must activate when the bottle is placed onto the robot
Any wheel base design may be used for the robot.
About the camp:
The summer camp was designed to teach each member of the Woodbridge Robotics Team the basics in robotics engineering, and to give each member sufficient experience in robotics to help effectively during the FIRST robotics season. The main goal was to make each person realize that high quality building is incredibly important in robotics, and that it is the difference between a weak team and a great team. Three lessons were given to each team, one at the beginning of each day. Each lesson only took about twenty to thirty minutes, and after that the teams were on their own to build their robot.
Why the camp is so important:
During the 2008 FIRST season, our robot was not holding together very well. During our programming stage wheels would just fly off, bolts would come loose and our wires were poorly connected, so they would lose connection and the robot would jitter even when it was simply told to go forward. Sadly, this was not the worst of our problems during that season. Most people on the team did not know how things worked, and therefore we could not ask them to check the wiring or to find a pneumatic leak. On top of that, there would be times when we would ask for all the bolts on the robot to be tightened, and even this was not done properly. A hand-tight bolt and a wrench-tight bolt are two very different things.
The team was very unorganized and uneducated.
After we built Zippy 2 (the Robomagellan robot) in Summer 2008, we realized how easy it is to build a robot that holds together for months of use, and most importantly how much organization can speed up the build process. As we built Zippy 2 we learned an incredible amount about robotics and we wanted to share as much as we can with our team. We decided that our FIRST team should be organized the way we organized the Zippy 2 project, and the first step was to educate all of our members, hence the Woodbridge Robotics Summer Camp.
Team 1
- Ryan Menezes (Senior)
- Austin Menapsul (Senior)
- Kevin Shih (Senior)
Team 2
- Chris Lloyd-Davies (Junior)
- Steven Lin (Junior)
- Alex Scott (Junior)
- Mohammad Abdulhadi (Senior)
- Jacqueline Sly (Junior)
Team 3
- Max Maksymenko (Sophmore)
- Aaron Zhang (Junior)
- Brady Trinh (Sophmore)
Team 4
- Cheeyoon Lee (Senior)
- Alvin Su (Senior)
- Nick Heitzmann (Senior)
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