After weeks of anxious waiting, the 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition game, “Breakaway”, was unveiled to the CocoNuts at the Arizona FRC Kickoff event at Brophy Preparatory Academy in Phoenix. Upon the end of two tedious hours of speeches, the CocoNuts rushed to get their FRC Kit of Parts and...
When everything seems funny and you can’t stop laughing, you know it’s been a long day. We started off right after school frantically trying to finish wiring our bot so that we could drive our robot in our last school basketball game. We did it though!
-burlymon
As we have decided as a team that we would like to attend the Duel in the Desert, we now have one less week to finish our robot! We agreed that it is probably a smart idea to go to this scimmage because we will only be attending the AZ Regional, and we want to have as much practice playing Breakaway as we can. We are going to have to devide and conquer in order to get the bot built and the CA application finished, but we will manage! 
-burlymon
Here we are, another weekend ahead of us and probably three days of 10+ hour build sessions.
The snow has let up enough that we were finally able to get our much needed bearings shipped up from Phoenix in the middle of the week, and our pistons for our kicker just came in today. We have outlined all that we need to include in our Chairman’s Award essay, and decided on theme for our CA stuff this year. Our robot chassis is beginning to take shape, and we are all feeling better about things because of it. I wonder how far the Falcons (842) are in in their build, their prototyping proved helpful to us, and we did a bit of prototyping of our own. Oh! And I came up with a new possible cheer for our team for this season. Ready?! “They ain’t no klutzes, they ain’t no schmutzes, O! Godness Gracious Me! They’re the CocoNutzes!!!” Yeah, I guess it probably needs some work.
Hopefully, we get a bunch done this weekend! 
-burlymon
GO NUTS!
Due to a week long snowstorm that brought the town of Flagstaff four feet of snow, school was canceled for an entire week. This meant that we were unable to do anything build-wise during the entire week. We were able to, on one day, coordinate a team chat on our new chat.fusd1robotics.org chat-room to (attempt to) discuss our Chairman’s Award submission. Finally, on Saturday, with the snow subsiding, the CocoNuts were able to hold their first build session of week of build season.
On a happier note, these snow days gave the webmaster time to revamp the website (until his internet was conked out) so check out the brand new Northern Arizona FLL Website, the redesigned Arizona FTC Website, and the CocoNuts’ new homepage.
The CocoNuts would like to unveil their newest methods for you to track their progress in the year of 2010. Follow us on Twitter by following us at twitter.com/cocorobo, or fan us on Facebook at the CocoNuts page. Just make sure to continue visiting this blog, as this will contine to have more thorough descriptions of what we’re doing.
After weeks of anxious waiting, the 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition game, “Breakaway”, was unveiled to the CocoNuts at the Arizona FRC Kickoff event at Brophy Preparatory Academy in Phoenix. Upon the end of two tedious hours of speeches, the CocoNuts rushed to get their FRC Kit of Parts and to begin their drive back to Flagstaff. Excluding the “who’s going to the rest area” misunderstanding on the way back up, everything went fine.
Upon the CocoNuts’ return, they inventoried all their parts, and found all of them in the right quantities and sizes, but with a few exceptions of course (*cough* e-ring *cough*). It was strange for the CocoNuts to use their very first room dedicated to robotics to inventory the Kit.
In all, Kickoff was a blast for all the CocoNuts, and soon they will all (rookie and veteran), experience the nail-biting, hair-pulling fun (or anger) that the FRC build season brings.
On January 8th-9th, the CocoNuts will be heading down to the Brophy PreparatoryAcademy in Phoenix to learn this year’s game for the 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition and to participate in all the accompanying workshops.
On December 5th, the CocoNuts hosted the first-ever “High Altitude Robotics Extravaganza” which consisted of both the Northern Arizona Regional FLL Tournament and the Arizona FTC Championship at Coconino High School in Flagstaff, AZ. In the Northern AZ FLL Tournament 29 total teams competed, 26 of them mentored by the CocoNuts. 6 teams qualified for the Arizona State FLL competition: the Straight Lines, Legoporation, West Sedona Lego Leaders, Skittles, Communicators, and the M3MS-O’-M3LONZ. These teams will compete at the Arizona State FLL Competition at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ on December 11th. On the other side of the High Altitude Robotics Competion, in the Arizona FTC Championship Tournament, ten teams from across Arizona competed and two went to state: The Dukes and the RoboBuffs. The CocoNuts Robotics team organized, kept score, helped judges, reset the fields and did almost everything else to make sure that the High Altitude Robotics Extravaganza was a success. In the end each of the CocoNuts and each of the participants had a good time at this successful event.
With only one month until the “High Altitude Robotics Extravaganza” of the NorAZ FLL Regional and the AZ State FTC Regional, the CocoNuts have:
Not including the around thirty CocoNuts doing this all: GO NUTS!
This past Sunday, October 4th, the CocoNuts gathered at Coconino High School to get to know one another better whilst having fun. From CocoNuts trivia, to ultimate Frisbee, the CocoNuts bonded and became more of a team.
