Worksession Recap: 02/19

1 day until Stop Build!

Funky Monkeys at the 2018 FIRST Robotics Championships

The Funky Monkeys of Lynbrook High School competed at the FIRST Robotics Championship in Houston, Texas, for the first time since 2014.

Worksession Recap: 02/18

2 days until Stop Build!

Machining/Assembly

Worksession Recap: 01/08

42 days until Stop Build!

We’re off to an amazing start! Just three days in, we’ve started exploring robot concepts and prototyping mechanism ideas to see what will be more efficient. Today, we made significant progress with developing our subsystem concepts…

Worksession Recap: 01/26

24 days until Stop Build!

Funky Monkeys Win Hub City Regional

Last weekend, the Funky Monkeys, Lynbrook High School’s robotics team, were the Regional Winners at the 2018 Hub City FIRST Robotics Regional in Lubbock Texas! On top of that, we received the Excellence in Engineering Award for our modular student-designed robot, and…

Worksession Recap: 01/09

41 days until Stop Build!

Worksession Recap: 01/10

40 days until Stop Build!

In Memory of Mr. Wes Harrison

Mr. Wes Harrison was a mentor who would often be seen in our team’s machine shop, helping team members build field elements during the beginning of build season and teaching them how to machine on our mills when it was time to machine our robot. Where his personality shone the…

Worksession Recap: 02/16

4 days until Stop Build!

Design

Forklift

Finished CAM for the tower, no other parts need to be machined. Did a test to find the ending size of a spliced, glued, and set rope. A 57 ⅛” rope after the…