Last chance to bling out the robot with vinyl stripes and LEDs before heading to FTC competition in Surrey right before FRC! The programmers were working furiously on the autonomous routines.

Superstructure completed and testing of subsystems began. Shockingly, swerve worked with relative ease!

Once the drive base was complete, programming could start in earnest to get it functional. The design of the superstructure was finalized in CAD and mechanical build began.

Halfway already???  At least the new CNC machine is up and running, and we've got a start on game elements.

The focus went to the swerve drive base and trying to complete the mechanical build after finalizing the CAD.

Parts arriving daily. Swerve or tank... that is the question. In the meantime, superstructure designing proceeded apace. Manufacturing and assembly continued.

FRC kickoff started with some brainstorming sessions, parts inventory, and a big thank you to Celt-X 5406 for sending us their old parts to use! We started working on two different drive bases, as we have never tried swerve before and were not entirely sure all the parts would arrive (or if we can get it working)... Our CAD design library is going to come in handy.