Daniel O’Connell – The Drop Bears

Build Season Week 2

Post author:Daniel O'Connell
Post published:3 February 2019
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This week we divided up into several groups based on aspects of this year's FRC Deep Space, these include cargo, climb, hatch, vision, autonomous, drive-base. Between the groups it has…

Build Season Week 1

Post author:Daniel O'Connell
Post published:14 January 2019
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In the last week we have been discussing the details of our strategy, designing, creating and planning prototypes. We began by splitting off into groups, forming strategies, we then presenting…

Kick Off!

Post author:Daniel O'Connell
Post published:6 January 2019
Post category:Build Season Kick Off

Today was the day, after about four weeks away from thinking about robots The Drop Bears had their kick off day. The day started off by watching the official FRC…

25th November

Post author:Daniel O'Connell
Post published:25 November 2018
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Today at The Drop Bears all the recruits were continuing their software lesson. In this lesson recruits were given some real life problems such as using your computer to do…

18th November

Post author:Daniel O'Connell
Post published:18 November 2018
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This week at the Drop Bears the recruits had their first software lesson. In it hey learnt the basics of Python syntax and some basic built in functions in Python.…

4th November

Post author:Daniel O'Connell
Post published:4 November 2018
Post category:Swerve Drive
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This week’s meeting at the Drop Bears was an exciting frenzy in the workshop. For the veterans, it marked an incredible milestone in the development of our latest iteration of…

28th October

Post author:Daniel O'Connell
Post published:28 October 2018
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This week on the swerve project we have started manufacturing some parts of the drive submodule, such as the axles and the box channel for the drive submodule. We have…

21st October

Post author:Daniel O'Connell
Post published:21 October 2018
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So the Drop Bears are back. It was a fun four week holiday, but having so much spare time on a sunday afternoon just didn’t feel right. This first session…

23rd September

Post author:Daniel O'Connell
Post published:23 September 2018
Post category:Swerve Drive

This week on the swerve drive project we were finalizing the CAD design and making some crucial decisions about the encoder and Talon placements. We had worked on the CAD…