Todor Andreev

At Home Challenges Recap

I know I haven’t been writing the blogs this year and I apologize for that. I hope everyone has still been able to get a good understanding of what has been going on through our general Wednesday meetings. In any case, since I don’t have a Wednesday meeting this week to recap, consider this aContinue reading “At Home Challenges Recap”

The 2021 Season – Kickoff

It’s official, we’re on. The 2021 Season kicked off on January 9th and we met on Saturday (9th) and Sunday (10th) to explore the three different challenges: Game Design, Infinite Recharge at Home, and Innovation Challenge. After a thorough analysis, we have a concrete timeline and plan to proceed with, and specific ways in whichContinue reading “The 2021 Season – Kickoff”

Some Progress

As we finish up the final couple weeks of school, we’re also looking to preparing the team as much as possible for the season to come. Since the last update, we have some more progress both on Torpedo and on the new robot (we should start thinking of names for it). Some of the fundamentalContinue reading “Some Progress”

Some Updates

It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog. But, that doesn’t mean our time has been devoid of progress. We started our weekly Wednesday meetings and have been doing some training for teams that can do it virtually. Simultaneously, we’ve been working on both improving Torpedo (our 2020 robot) and developing the design forContinue reading “Some Updates”

Torpedo

Team 2658’s 2020 robot “Torpedo” was incredible. It is arguably the best robot the team has ever created, won the Quality Award, and placed 5th/58 at the Del Mar Regional. It can also be so much better. So, let’s take a look at it. Conception Let’s begin with with how we came up with theContinue reading “Torpedo”

The Blog is Back

I know what everyone’s thinking. “Oh my Toshko why did you wait so long to bring back the blog I had no idea what to do during quarantine without your blog and thank you so much for bringing it back because now my world is complete.” I know I know. Don’t worry, it’s back. AllContinue reading “The Blog is Back”

The End of Infinite Recharge

On Thursday morning, as we were getting ready to head to the San Diego Regional, we received the news that the regional would be postponed. Within a couple hours we received further news that the entire FRC season is suspended and that both world championships are cancelled. You can read the full announcement here. AsContinue reading “The End of Infinite Recharge”

Post – Del Mar Regional

These last two days (and whatever time we have left tomorrow) we’ve really focused on ironing out the little kinks we have to get right for this next regional. Most of it comes down to our shooting and the software that goes behind it. So far, we’ve been able to change to PID on ourContinue reading “Post – Del Mar Regional”

Del Mar Regional

Friday – March 6 On Friday we were planning on quickly getting inspected, tuning our limelight on the field, and driving all day long in practice matches. As we would normally expect of any robotics team, the plan quickly flew out the window. We spent some time initially drilling out the bushings on the otherContinue reading “Del Mar Regional”

Pre – Del Mar Regional

We entered the Wednesday (March 4th) before competition with high hopes for extensive drive time and few other errors. However, as it always happens, we were able to get very little drive time and instead had various issues to deal with. Most prominent of the issues was our climber. Initially, the soldering connections on theContinue reading “Pre – Del Mar Regional”