Howdy readers, this is your Chief Engineer speaking to let you know that CRUSH HAS CONQUERED turbulence! let me put that in understandable language: We love Crush, but his biggest flaw was that he had very ugly buoyancy blocks last year and poor hydrodynamics, so my goal this year was to clean up the mess. …
Read more “He Came, He Swam, He Conquered. – Mechanical Blog 4/11/26”
It’s been a long semester! Now that we’re all done it’s time to take a step back and recap all of our accomplishments this semester! Also, congratulations to all for finishing exams; happy holidays and happy new year! Mechanical progress Mechanical has been busy! Take a peep at what we’ve been working on! Torpedoes were very …
Read more “What’s been cooking with our good looking (robots) – Fall 2025 recap”
DRC has been very busy since FDOC! Post-comp our primary goal was to unpack from comp and then fully reorganize our room. Unpacking A few dedicated members took the initiative and fully unpacked everything extremely fast! Crush and Oogway survived the voyage across the country fully unscathed, so we could not be more pleased! In …
Read more “Start of the year recap: Cleaning and Onboarding”
Progress on Crush Frame We’ve been hard at work to get Crush ready for testing and electronics integration! Some major components of Crush are the two side plates enclosing the two capsules and the back plate, which the capsules mount to. Strewn across the two side plates are mounting bars with a pattern of hexagons …
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