FRC Team 668: the Apes of Wrath

We've submitted our written summary for the Innovation Challenge! Stay tuned for more info on our exciting new mobile game, Endless Paw-sabilities, that will help make daily walks a fun and easy part of your daily routine.

Build season progress: here’s our current swerve drive prototype!

If you have a few moments, please take our short survey! We're narrowing down our ideas for the Innovation Challenge, and we created this survey to help us understand how much of a market there could be for our top 3 concepts. We look forward to hearing your input! http://bit.ly/robotics-team-survey

Our team has been getting a lot out of the Innovation Challenge workshops, and last weekend we were excited to see our very own Mechanical Design Captain helping out as a student facilitator!

Sneak peek of a few drivetrains-in-progress! This year we're thankful to be able to do a hands-on Fall Project while meeting remotely.

Aaaand we're home from our first day of mentor machining! We made a lot of parts on the laser cutter and the manual mill, and we learned a bunch about the CNC router. We are so grateful to have access to our shop, and we look forward to the day when it's safe for the students to come back to campus too!

Club Rush! It’s still not too late to sign up! Go to team668.org for more information!

Our five groups are putting the finishing touches on their drivetrain designs, and gearing up for the next phase: making CAMs and drawings for their drivetrain parts, and designing their scoring mechanisms!

The Apes of Wrath virtual Fall Project is off to a great start! This fall we are once again splitting into five teams to design, build, and program robots to play former FTC game Block Party. All our teams have been learning how to draw, brainstorm, and collaborate together online over the past two weeks, and are ready to crush their design reviews on Wednesday!

We are excited to present our student leaders for the 2020-2021 season! They did a great job running online workshops over the summer, and they're fired up to lead the Fall Project and spring build season

The first Apes of Wrath meeting of the new year is this Wednesday, Sept. 2 at 5pm! We're based out of Pioneer High School in San Jose, but we welcome students from any local high school (or homeschooled). All our meetings will be online this semester, so go to forms.gle/2yPrWz2C9Di4GxEK9 to sign up and get the meeting link!

We are very proud of our CAD students for placing 21st in the F4 Fall CADathon! They had one week to design a robot that scores exercise balls into goals and scales a truss, and they did an amazing job and got great practice working together virtually.

Check out our brand new website at https://www.team668.org that our students have been working on throughout the summer!

Team 668 is honored to have been awarded the Inclusion Award at KLA's virtual Robogames! We are very grateful to KLA for all their support over the years, and enjoyed the opportunity to showcase our work. Inclusion is one of our team's core values, so this recognition means a lot to us! PC: "First Robotics Competition - Silicon Valley Regional" page

The Apes' 2016 season has unfortunately come to an end! But this doesn't mean robotics is done... The Apes are now going to fix up Caesar for CalGames 2017 and work on some other side projects, so stay tuned!

The Apes are ready for day 2 of qualifiers and playoffs at SVR... They're ranked 48 but are hopeful their last 2 matches will be successful! Go apes! If you want to come by and watch, feel free to come to San Jose State at the event center today! Otherwise, the live-stream is on the live scores page of the website

The Apes are ready for qualifiers at the Silicon Valley Regional today! Make sure to visit the website where you can watch the live-stream right from our site and make sure to visit The Blue Alliance for live score updates and live rankings. If you're on mobile, you can download FRC Spyder as well which will give you match predictions. Feel free to come out and support our Apes today from 8am-6pm at San Jose State University in the Event Center. http://apesofwrath668.org/liv...escores.html https://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2016casj#rankings

The Apes are looking forward to SVR this upcoming weekend! Make sure to attend Thursday for practice matches and Friday-Saturday for qualifiers and playoffs! It's hosted here in San Jose at San Jose State University!