Today marks the last weekend until "Bag Day" (for those of you who don't know, Bag Day is the final day for us to make modifications to the robot. At 12 at night, you put your robot in a massive plastic bag and can't touch it until your next competition). Thanks to a four day weekend, we still have all day of Monday and up until midnight after school on Tuesday to bag and tag it. The past week has been full of little nasty surprises. On Friday, a wrong button press on our cus

Yep. You read that title right. Things are starting to come together here at Woodrow. After testing the lift and attaching the intake, our robot is actually starting to look like, well, a robot. The mechanical team has been working tirelessly to bring this vital system to life, and it sure has shown. We have already begun to get the two components to work together as we temporarily wired them up to see if they even worked in the first place (spoiler alert: they work wonderful

This week, we finally finished the lift! It's been a long journey, and now hundreds of red rivets spot our aluminum channels, holding the structure together. After primary tests with the lift motor, we found the lift was moving sluggishly, so the mechanical team switched out the gearbox and got that sucker moving quickly. We nearly completed our intake as well. Dozens of rivets, multiple brackets, and a handful of machine screws later, and we brought to life our low-riding bo