Bytes of News Posted at: Wed, Dec 16th, 2009 | 2:14PM UTC By Josh Ashby

Because of finals at school this week, I have been slowed down in getting the terms of use for the site written and posted, sorry for the delay.

During my lunch periods I’ve started writing a technical paper on BOB, which goes into detail about his systems and build. You can see a preview of it here, Project: BOB.

I’m currently working on fixing the bug on BOB’s motor controllers that I found the other month. No matter what, the MOSFETs will not turn completely off, even when their gates are pulled low, and as a result as soon as BOB has power, his motors go crazy, to put it simply. I’ve stopped development on almost all of my projects right now because FIRST has started up again this year, and the Sparkfun AVC for 2010 is coming up in a few months which BOB has to be running for.  Between these two robots I don’t have much time for other projects and so as a result don’t expect to see any new code content on this blog for a few months.

US FIRST Robotics Colorado Regionals Posted at: Thu, Mar 26th, 2009 | 1:00AM UTC By Josh Ashby

UPDATE March 26, 2009 - Well, this morning it was snowing and by the time I got up there was about 3 inches, give or take of snow, and DU was closed. One would think that if DU closed, the FIRST competition would be postponed, but nope they said it was still a go; that is until 10:30 when the building has to be totally emptied. Better luck tomorrow!

Tomorrow (March 26) Marks the start of the Colorado Regionals for the FIRST Robotics Challenge this year. I’ll be sure to take photos of the the team and our robot, along with information on the competition, what it was like and how we did. This being my first year on a FIRST team I have no clue what to expect of the competitions, but I get a feeling there pretty crazy, hope my coding can take it. Hope for a great, amazing three days of robotics, and wish our team luck!

Team 1377 Adams 12 Robotics

The robot: More information coming soon, along with pictures ;P

Good luck to all other teams also, play great, and have fun! Cya there