Las Vegas

The competition is in two days. We are now making the final changes to the robot, mainly making new autonomies. Minojigataur (Minotaur, Jiggles, Jigataur) is now recovering from the failure of the "new better lift." We are getting last-muinite driver practice, and strategy. Some of us are very frustrated with the failure of our newest autonomies. We are learning to work with a new platform, for our lift. We just have to finnish the last tweaks. (P.S. The entry on January 19 is INVALID! the real name is the Minojigataur.)

Much sadness aboundith

      Sadly our lift broke, and our giant lift will have to be removed, hopefully, we can do well on Saturday.

Driver practice

      We are building a new scissor lift, and are doing driver practice. Our drivers are Derek, Jonathan, Calin, Tyler, and Jacob. The bot is doing well and we are trying new stratigies to win. The team is ready to go to Las Vegas. Jiggles's new lift is taller, and sturdier, and our new autonomies are helping our team a lot.

robot name confusion

we have been thinking of new name for the robot but we were at a dilemma between Minotaur and jiggles. so we decided to name is JIGETAR!

Old to New

                                      Today, 4322 is going to talk about the life of Jiggles.

     He started as a 4 by 4 square bot( phase 1). It has grown into a robot capible of getting into finals twice. We added two long arms that could capture a bowling ball.( Phase 2)

      We then removed them and added a conveyor belt however it was slanted and wasted space. The bot then got a scissor lift. We made the first major rebuild with a strait conveyor, the "tomahawk" arm, and the scissor lift. We used this until after Los Angeles.
      We then did our second major rebuild. we made a new, more efficient conveyor belt, and a larger scissor lift. The bot did well until the finals in San Diego. We are now starting our third major renovation. We are making a stronger lift, and a flap to keep crates on the lift.

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Phase 4

Phase 5

Phase 6

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Debrief from San Diego

     We and Alpha both went into the semi-finals with a score of (5, 0). We were paired with Shockwave and were ranked second. In the Semi-finals, We went against Garagebots (team 72). Sadly we lost the tournoment. Phi Alpha won the entire competition, and will go to worlds. Congratulations to Alpha!

San Diego!

      We are making the finishing touches to the bot. 4322 is Almost complete, and we are starting driver practice. We are working on the engineering notebook, and our photos. The bom (bill of materials) is finnished and we are now having an extended meeting. The bot has a new cart and we are ready for the new competition.

Driver practice

     Today we practiced with 452 and are learning how to drive.The bot's ramp is now tweaked and we are replacing the servo. We hope to be driving soon. The bot, Minotaur, will be working soon. We hope to do better this weekend. Please wish us luck in this competition.

The bot's broken part, the ramp.

Meet the Minotaur!

We've finally thought of a new name for the robot: the Minotaur.  This is because the robot looks somewhat like a bull.  Several of us are very, very glad that we have a good name for the robot (to replace the unspeakable one!)

The bot is not the Minotaur!!!!!

We are finnishing our radical changes

"Jiggles" (front) and Butters (rear) 

                                                   Our first picture of "Jiggles"

New scissor lift and arms

        We are finnishing our new "radical changes". Omega is now going to incorperate magnet ball technology, and a new layer for our scissor lift. "Jiggles" is now rewired and can drive in teleop. Sadly, we need to remake all of our autonomies. The bot has gone very far in its short life. The bot's arms are being called T-rex arms. The new arms have caused drastic changes to our bot. We are starting driver practice, and are learning new tactics for scoring points. We now have a new layer for the scissor lift. We are waiting with anticipation for the competition.

     If you have any new names, please tell us. Also, we would appreciate if you voted for our name.


The bot will not be named Minotar!!!

Happy New Year

Today is our first meeting of the new year. The Bot has been finished and looks much better than the last pictures. The main problem with the new changes is that we must rewrite all of our autonomies.We are making a new ramp that will have more than half a NASA logo. The bot has a new ramp with a trench to let the new arm go down all the way. We are excited for the San Diego and putting our bot to the test.


By the way the word of the year is apocalypse: (ap-ok-o-lips)n. 1. The end of the
world or a great negative worldwide change.

The word of the day (last meeting) is rubber band: (ruber band)n. 1. A rubber, or plastic, circular flexible strap thet is used to

creat tension. 2. A sprongy thing that is used for shooting at people.

The word of the day is apocali: (ap-ok-ol-i)n. Plural of apocalypse.