For the past many weeks, we’ve been hard at work on the Project Avatar robot, and this week we hit a big milestone in our journey. In the last post, we discussed the design process, and now I was set in charge for assembling the hardware. Because we hadn’t tried …
Since our last blog post, we’ve been meeting weekly to design, programming, build, and discuss logistics of our project to build a robot for virtual members to navigate around the lab. The design went through a number of iterations before we landed on a design we liked. The first design …
It took some time, but Riley Robot in a Space Race is now playable on the Riley Robot website! Now that the game is officially published, we don’t have to explain what the game consists of because you can play it yourself (http://rileyrobot.akfirstrobotics.org/play/)! However, we can still explain how the …
It is Saturday June 4, 2020. After having won the Chairman’s Award at the Wilsonville event, we got the opportunity to travel back to Washington, where we could once again be considered for the Chairman’s Championship event. After days and long nights of competitions, hotel game nights, and Panera Bread …
Though we may be kept isolating at home, that doesn’t mean we can’t begin recruitment for the upcoming season. Many of our current members heard about our team thanks to past recruitment at summer engineering camps, and we’re continuing to connect with potential new members this summer over Zoom. We’ve …
For a while now, our team has included members from all over Alaska. We even have a member in Mexico! We are currently working on a project to help our virtual members interact even more with the team. We call it Project Avatar. Project Avatar is a robot to act …
Operation Lego Redistribution (OLR) is a new outreach project we started. It centers around the field components that are used at the State FLL Competition each year, then left in storage. OLR is a project that takes all of these components and sends them out to volunteers. These volunteers will …
We’d like to showcase our seniors, who are leaving the team to go do bigger and brighter things. Our seniors have done so much for the team, so join us as we thank them for all they’ve done! Caden Boyer Meet Caden, our team’s Business Manager! Caden has participated in …
During this unprecedented time, Lawton decided to host zoom meetings every Tuesdays and Thursdays to teach some members of the team how to model 3D designs through the computer software Fusion 360. In the first few meetings, Lawton demonstrated how to use Fusion 360 to design a drive base for …
