This week, the digital animation team worked to finish "Conducting Our Charge", this year's animation. The animation depicts a robot following its passion, music. The animation itself follows this robot through many times of triumph all building towards said passion. At the climax of the animation, the music crescendos, mirroring the theme of this year's game. Additions this week include major coloring, music composition, drawing backgrounds, and adding technical details such as shading. Our major issue this week is time. The animation process was longer than the team expected and had to do some work at home to finish up the project in time. Another major issue was the application we used; it was unable to connect to the computers, so most, if not, all the work was done on personal devices. This made importing and exporting clips tedious. In the end, however, all these issues were resolved and the animation was completed to meet the deadline. This concludes this year's digital animation.
Introduction The preseason of Robotics is an extended time period that provides training for the team along with important skill building, strategy development, and testing. During this time, the team focuses on improving their skills in CAD modeling, manufacturing, code development, and branding. Each of our team's departments has been working on specific skills related to their field. In the design and manufacturing department, the team modeled robot parts in a CAD program and stocked inventory for the upcoming build season. Meanwhile, the software team worked on modifying and adjusting the code of a smaller robot to simulate and learn coding for the team's future robot. The Team The Charge robotics team is an award-winning team at Cherokee High School that competes in the FIRST Robotics Competition. The team consists of three major departments, Design & Fabrication, Software, and Branding & Marketing. Each of these departments works toward a common goal of designing,...