I'm back from the FIRST FTC championship with great news - we're division champions (thereby in the top 5 teams out of perhaps 5000 worldwide)! Here's our team logo plus ourselves and our winning bot in the background:
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| Team FTC 4290 - our best year yet! |
One team member put together an amazing wrap-up video
here. See if you can figure out why we call the robot "GiraPHPHe."
In other news, the 3D printer control software is progressing nicely. I'm putting the finishing touches on the GUI and slicing logic. For example, I can now do this:
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| Slices at z = 19 through 28 mm of a brain lobe and Yoda. |
I love these cross-section animations. Not only do the look amazing, but they also mean I'm closing in on a final product. Once I fill in these shapes and change the entire thing to a full-screen view (perhaps on a second monitor), I ought to be able to test out the printer. I wonder if I have time this week... it's so tantalizingly close!