February 4th, 2012
Our Chairman’s essay is nearly complete. Our superstructure has been finalized and many of mechanical subsystems are nearly complete. Our bumpers are coming together and our superstructure is being constructed.
The field elements have arrived and been set up on our nearly-full-size field. We are getting ready for the NASA in-house Scrimmage in two weeks (look for more updates on that next weekend).
We are so proud of all the hard work girls have put in in the last month!
4 Weeks down, 2 Weeks to go!
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January 27th, 2012
This week we finalized our superstructure, making a system we believe will be a winner! We sent our drive base out to BAE Systems’ water jets to be machined. After prototyping several designs, we designed and CADed our bumpers. We have started programming our robot. To begin, we learned to use and program the Kinect software. We started machining parts of our structure. We hope to finish our chassis and side parts this weekend to send to the welder soon!
3 Weeks down, 3 Weeks to go!
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January 20th, 2012
This week the Space Cookies finalized our electronics board layout and protoytped several mechanisms for our “shooter” structure. We have also designed our bumpers and begun to look at the superstructure. We can’t tell you what it is, so hopefully you will come see it in action at one of our Regionals: Sacramento or Silicon Valley.
2 Weeks down, 4 Weeks to go!
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January 15th, 2012
Curious about recent Space Cookie activity? Dying to know what we’ve been up to? Of course you are!
Read our latest newsletter and then send it to all your friends and co-workers!
space cookies jan2012 newsletter
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January 13th, 2012
The Space Cookies have been busy this week planning for Rebound Rumble FRC Season 2012. We have been prototyping and deciding the orientation of our drivetrain and wheels. We have built certain aspects of the field, precisely one bridge and one basket. We have been prototyping the drivetrain by testing different methods of crossing the bump (4 inches tall and 6 inches wide). We created a weighted objectives table to determine our orientation, which we cannot reveal, but come find out at the Sacramento Regional in March. Also in the lab, we started working on the kitbot to prototype our orientation. We have been prototyping in CAD, for example our slot and the drive base.
Come see us at the Sacramento Regional, from March 15 to 17, or the Silicon Valley Regional, from March 28 to 30.
1 Week down, 5 Weeks to go!
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January 8th, 2012
After watching Kickoff yesterday, the Space Cookies are excited to begin Build Season 2012. If you haven’t yet, watch the 2012 game animation “Rebound Rumble.”
FIRST FRC 2012 Rebound Rumble
The team has been strategizing, analyzing rules, and planning for the season. We’re looking forward to an exciting season of building friendships and building robots. We can’t tell you about our decisions, but you’ll see our robot at the end of Build Season.
Good luck with your robot! Let’s Rumble!
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January 1st, 2012
FRC Kickoff 2012 is coming next Saturday. If you’re on the East Coast it will be shown at 10am, 7am on the West Coast. You can watch the live streaming here:
http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/2011_kickoff.php
Enjoy the show!
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November 9th, 2011
On Sunday Nov. 6, the Bay Area Science Festival put on a 10-day long event called Discovery Days, in which organizations from all over the Bay Area put together science and STEM-related experiments and activities for the community. On Sunday, November 6th, at AT&T Park in San Francisco, there were many booths, including those of NASA, Stanford, the Tech Museum, and many other companies. One of our favorite booths was about extracting DNA from your cheek cells, in another you could learn about the planets, and much more! Our robot was situated right at the entrance, at Willie Mays Plaza, next to the Stanford autonomous race car.
Our team drove the robot around and hanged tubes on homemade pegs, and deployed the minibot on a makeshift minibot pole. We showed off our 2011 competition robot and our minibot to people from all over the Bay Area, and even people visiting from outside the country. We had over ten girls show up to run our booth, along with several parents to chaperone. It was a lot of fun, and we were videotaped by UCSF, Sri, ChinaTv, and the Science Festival.
~Kavya
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October 23rd, 2011
Well, we’re back. This weekend was an exciting one. We got the chance to participate in WRRF’s CalGames, hosted by Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose. The event was visited by 36 teams from around California. The Space Cookies went up Friday night and were there all day Saturday. For many new members, this was their first chance to see a live FRC competition. It opened their eyes to what they will be reaching for in the spring. We got to meet and connect with a lot of awesome people and old friends from other teams. Our robot had no major malfunctions, only a few blips that were fixed quickly. Many younger members got the chance to drive the robot in a match or two. At the end of qualifying matches we were seeded #3. Our alliance was with 1678, the Citrus Circuits, and 256, the RoboRams. We worked well together and had a great time, making it to the semifinals, when we were unfortunately eliminated. It was great to have the chance to work with 1678 again, our co-winners from the Davis Regional in 2011. Overall, it was a great experience for our new members and great practice for our returning members.
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October 14th, 2011
Fall Product Sales are underway! This means that you can buy Nuts, Candies, Magazines, and other goodies from your favorite local Girl Scout. There are twelve varieties of goodies, from classic chocolate-covered raisins to gummi bears! You can also choose to donate money directly to a troop or products directly to the food bank or military establishment in “Care to Give”. The sale gives girls a chance to work on their business skills, reach out to the community, raise hard-earned money for their troop, and practice responsibility.
We are continuing to prepare for CalGames, happening in just seven days! New members have been working hard in the lab: practicing scouting, trying out human player, and trying out for driver. So much to do and learn! Returning members have been brushing up on skills and getting themselves mentally prepared for the competition. The Space cookies will be submitting for several awards, fingers crossed. Everyone is excited for blue face paint, blue hairspray, and blue finger nails. And maybe, on the side we could, you know, win the competition! I kid, all our efforts are going into perfecting our robot, training, and making Mazarine work to the best of her abilities!
Don’t forget about the upcoming FLL tournament hosted by our team on November 12, more info to come later. If your team would like to participate or you would like to be a judge or referee, please contact the team.
~Sarah
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