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Maple Valley Days 2010

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Darren VanBuren

Today, Maple Valley Days in 2010 wrapped up. Bear Metal, also known as The Tahoma Robotics Club, had the opportunity to participate in the parade for another year, as well as have a booth again. This year, we brought all … Continue reading →

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Again with the mill type thing

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Darren VanBuren

Yesterday, Sunday, I got the opportunity to cut out some parts on our nice new mill we got last week. It’s fast. So far, we’ve been running the mill with just spraying with WD-40 as a coolant, but once we … Continue reading →

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Mill type thing

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Darren VanBuren

The Tahoma Robotics Club recently purchased a CNC mill that we got delivered to us yesterday. Today, we got the mill moving and running GCODE via the Mach3 Mill control interface. When we first connected to the mill, we were … Continue reading →

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Home, home again

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Darren VanBuren

I’m back home again, after a slightly disappointing Autodesk Oregon Regional. There were some Super Bowl XL like calls, but we did fairly well nonetheless. We lost in the semi-finals to the eventual winning alliance. We are working on making … Continue reading →

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Final Qualification Matches, Beginning Elimination

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Darren VanBuren

Today, the qualification matches at the Autodesk Portland Regional finished up, with us performing much better. We ended up in 34th seed. When the top 8 seeded teams were choosing, we were lucky enough to be chosen by Team 8, … Continue reading →

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Things aren’t going too well.

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Darren VanBuren

Here at the competition, because of certain pieces not coming together correctly,  and our head programmer makes some very bad decisions. He blows off time that could be used. We’ve had so many issues, that we thought all the problems … Continue reading →

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Hello from Portland

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Darren VanBuren

I’m in my bed at my hotel, in Portland. Tomorrow starts the practice day for the Autodesk Oregon FRC Regional. We have some work to do on our robot, but we hope to be in practice matches by 13:00 (1:00pm). … Continue reading →

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Day of Trip

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Darren VanBuren

I’m waiting for the school announcements to end, or mention the competition I’m going to. Oh look, they didn’t mention it. I’m still excited for the competition. We got a loaner trailer for our stuff, while our own trailer is … Continue reading →

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