Team 971: Spartan Robotics

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We are excited to announce that the second 24 Hours of STEM starting on December 18th at 3pm (PST) will include a family-friendly hands-on challenge! Get a group of friends or family together and put your STEM skills to the test for a chance to win a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit. More information available at the website: https://www.24hoursofstem.org/the-challenge #omgrobots #morethanrobots #makeyourjourneycount #strongertogether #24hoursofstem

Saturday at 5:00pm PST is our last Spartan Series Talk for July 2020! Come see Austin Schuh discuss Robot Software Architecture: The Design of AOS. He will present updates to 971’s framework for code, showing principles and reasoning behind the design and workflows available. Check it out here: https://tinyurl.com/SpartanSeries2020AOS Thanks to everyone who came and asked questions at the previous talks. #omgrobots #spartanseries2020

Come to the next Spartan Series talk with Austin Schuh, 971's software mentor and drive coach, Bailey Lunn, 2019 driver and Sabina Davis, who was on drive team in various capacities for 5 years, discuss how 971 prepares for and executes matches from offseason to Einstein today at 5:00pm PST. Mira will host the panel discussion. https://tinyurl.com/SpartanSeries2020Behind #omgrobots #spartanseries2020

Four more Spartan Series talks to come this week. Today at 5:00pm PST, Kai will be discussing an overview of 971’s assembly process, from best practices to effective organization and workflow management at: https://tinyurl.com/SpartanSeries2020Assembly Kai, a senior who started with the team as a freshman, was 971’s 2020 manufacturing and strike team lead. He has worked on design, assembly, and manufacturing. #omgrobots #spartanseries2020

The first week of Spartan Series Talks are complete. You can catch any you've missed at our youtube channel, FRC971, https://www.youtube.com/user/FRC971 Today at 6:00pm PST, "CAD with Me", hosted by Travis Schuh who is Team 971's lead mechanical mentor, teaching design, CAD, machining, and more. He is currently a Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager at Auris Health. He enjoys mentoring because it gives him a chance to work with smart kids on interesting problems. He gradua...ted with a mechanical engineering degree from Olin College of Engineering. Travis was a student on 971 for 3 years and was team captain his senior year in 2008. Travis will go through his thought process as he designs a yet to be decided robot mechanism during this talk that begins at 6:00pm PST today. Click here to watch: https://tinyurl.com/CADwithMe #omgrobots #spartanseries2020

Counting down to our Saturday, 2pm PST, Spartan Series Software talk, Camera Calibration: Precision & Alignment for Robots. Our mentor, Jim, will showcase Team 971's approach to camera calibration for our vision system. Since 2019, Jim has worked on developing camera calibration for 971’s vision system. He is Chief Technology Officer at Blue River Technology, a John Deere company, that develops sprayers to improve agriculture using machine learning, and has been there for o...ver 7 years. Prior to that, Jim has been VP of Product Development at Datalogic and Evolution Robotics Retail. He has an Electrical Engineering degree from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from CalTech. Check out the talk here at 2:00pm, PST: https://tinyurl.com/SpartanSeries2020Camera #omgrobots #spartanseries2020