Week of 8 Build Season
Final testing, tuning and improvements. Thank you to Carpet Power and Carpet Biz to let the team use their warehouse in Banksmeadow for final testing of the robot before the…
Week of 7 Build Season
11 days to the Southern Cross Regional! The team is busily testing the mechanical systems on the robot and fine tuning the robot code with only 11 days before the…
Week of 6 Build Season
Nearly there! All prototypes have now been converted into the final mechanisms and fitted to the robot drive base.The drivers had a chance to drive the robot with the software…
Week 5 of 2022 Build Season
4 Weeks to go to Southern Cross Regional competition The team is under a lot of pressure to complete the final mechanisms so that full robot testing can be done.Some…
Week 4 of 2022 Build Season
Design reviews, mechanism manufacturing, testing and improving robot code After a very busy week of finalising the prototypes and starting to manufacture parts for the mechanisms the team is ready…
Week 3 of 2022 Build Season
Final prototyping, testing, writing robot code and sponsor visit David Bolt and Tom Wise, two directors of our Sponsor Warren Smith Consulting Engineers visited the teams workshop today for a…
Week 2 of 2022 Build Season
Advanced prototyping, testing and writing robot code This week the team refined the prototyping and completed the initial vision tracking code. Intake The prototype structure was strengthened with larger, more…
Week 1 of 2022 Build Season
Strategy, Concept Design and Prototyping The Drop Bears are back with new recruits and additional mentors to design and build a new robot for the 2022 Southern Cross Regional in…
James Ward Returns
Just got word that James Ward is planning to return from Beijing by the end of the year and will be back for the 2022 build season.
Autonomous Award 2021
A well deserved award for the amazing autonomous functions of the robot.The judges were most impressed with the ability to shoot accurately at the goal form various distances and angles…