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‘Build Season’ Begins For Titanium Robotics

Justin Jang and Tyler Hand presenting to mentors the CAD drawings for Titanium Robotics’ first full design of this year’s robot.

San Marino High School’s robotics team, Titanium Robotics, made considerable advancements throughout the past week since it held its kickoff for build season to commence. The team came up with a tentative concept of the entire robot, and each of the mechanisms that comprise it. Furthermore, each of these designs have already been proven to perform the way that they are expected, meaning that it is not necessary for the team to construct proof-of-concept prototypes, thus allowing the team to begin creating CAD (Computer Aided Design) drawings of the designs. Upon finishing the CAD drawings for the team’s first version of this year’s robot, the team hosted a mentor review on Saturday, January 11. At this mentor review, three team members— CAD Captain Justin Jang, Engineering Vice President Jack Moffat, and Engineering Vice President Tyler Hand— presented the CAD drawings to an audience consisting of several other team members and mentors. Each mentor provided their own insight on how each promoted design could be improved upon, or brought up issues that could arise further along in the building process or while the robot is actually on the field.

The overarching issue that mentors saw with the team’s first robot design concept was, ironically, its simplicity— in an effort to make the robot as efficient and robust as possible, the team created designs whose simplicity reigned supreme, which limited some other capabilities that the robot could otherwise possess. Overall, mentors believed that the designs were an ample starting point that could be built upon in order to permit the full potential of the robot’s mechanisms to be reached. Over the course of the next week the team will be reviewing each critique while altering and expanding upon their designs accordingly. All of this work takes place at work sessions every day in the robotics room (308) beginning at 2:00 until around 8:00 in the evening and on Saturdays from 10:00 until the evening.

If you wish to join the team, participate in the building and designing of Titanium Robotics’ robot, and work with the robot at competitions, come and help out at work sessions; no prior experience or knowledge is required— all that is necessary is a positive attitude and a wish to learn!

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