Murdoch FRC

Murdoch FRC FIRST Robotic Competition (FRC) team hosted at Murdoch University. Team members are year 10-12 students mentored by Murdoch and industry experts.

10/03/2020

The coronavirus situation has lead to the postponement of the upcoming FRC Southern Cross and South Pacific regional competitions in Sydney. Very unfortunate timing as we were so excited to ship our robot for the competition and then find out about the postponement the next day. But the safety of everyone involved in FRC is paramount, so we'll just move on and look forward to both the resheduled competition and next year.

Thanks to all the FRC Team 7779 students, mentors and dedicated parents for all the hard work and commitment during the build.

The WA teams are trying to arrange a practice event and Team 7779 hopes to be there.

It's all become very exciting as our robot was just picked up for shipping to the South Pacific Regional competition in ...
06/03/2020

It's all become very exciting as our robot was just picked up for shipping to the South Pacific Regional competition in Sydney. Thanks to the FedEx and TNT transport for sponsoring FIRST and FRC with free robot transport to Sydney.

You may see we now have an informal team name "UNDER PRESSURE".

More like a description of our season than a name actually!!

24/02/2020

Sometimes things just don't go according to plan. So it was with our climbing mechanism test. Who thought attaching a ratchet spanner would be so hard. Ahh well, two steps forward, one step back !!

Thanks go to Ben, Alex and Lizzie from the "Murdoch Roboteers" program who joined Team 7779 and have been helping out for the last few weeks.

19/02/2020

After some fine tuning it worked pretty well for a first attempt. Even the cargo loading mechanism worked - sort of !!

Lizzie, Alex and Ben from the Horizons program joined FRC Team 7779 after the Horizons program.

19/02/2020

Some Team 7779 mentors also mentored in the recent "Murdoch Roboteers" Horizons program. This 3 week program is designed to introduce year 11 students to university life and help them develop study skills to assist in their year 12 studies. For the "Murdoch Roboteers" the students built the 2019 Everybot designed by FRC team 118 "Robonauts".

19/02/2020

Once we moved the robot away from the goals to accomodate the bumper things didn't go so well. Enter "THE FLAP".

19/02/2020

Our "bucket" worked.

Here are some more photos of the build over the last few weeks. This is also the heart of Team 7779. On the left is lead...
19/02/2020

Here are some more photos of the build over the last few weeks. This is also the heart of Team 7779. On the left is lead mentor Nick Berryman then Imogen, Logan, Jet and Kasun. Great job everyone.

It's been a while since our last post because our small but dedicated team of roboteers has been hard at work designing ...
19/02/2020

It's been a while since our last post because our small but dedicated team of roboteers has been hard at work designing and building our 2020 robot. Here are some photos of the robot and the climbing mechanism being tested. We decided early on to make a simple robot to score points in the low goal and climb at the end of the match. So our robot has a "bucket" to hold 5 power cells and a tilting base to deposit them in the low goal. The climbing mechanism is chain driven and in tests was easily able to lift the robot onto the switch.

Enjoy.

14/11/2019

Don't forget the Murdoch University FRC Team 7779 Open Day on this Saturday November 16 from 10am to 12 midday. It's a great chance to see our fabulous robot building facilities, meet some mentors, and see what a great opportunity the FRC program is. Of course if you are interested we would be thrilled to have you join our team for the 2020 FRC season.

See you all on Saturday

08/07/2019

During a break in the rain we tested out our latest progress including the camera and the roller for the loader. It may be made out of reticulation pipe and adapters with a plumbing insulation cover, but it spins at 40kph. I think we were all a little surprised it held together at that speed and didn't fly apart.

Time is getting tight to finish our robot but, fortunately, the team is really stepping up and the build is racing ahead...
08/07/2019

Time is getting tight to finish our robot but, fortunately, the team is really stepping up and the build is racing ahead. This week Rujula and Nick worked on the electronics, programmed the camera and intake mechanism control, and installed the compressor. Kenneth and Lachlan worked on intake pnuematics hardware. The rest of our hardware team worked on bumpers and on the secondary robot we use for school demos preparing it for the Murdoch Open day on July 28 and TechSpo 2019 on August 7 and 8 (https://www.techspo.com.au/).

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