2016-2017 Velocity Vortex
2 Bits and a Byte started the season during November of 2016 and ended their journey at the World Championship, located in St. Louis, MO. We were really excited to play in the World Championship once again with these great teams all over the world.
At the World Championship, we breezed past the knockout matches with the record of 7 wins and 2 loss. We came out as top 4 out of 64 teams in our division, “Ochoa”. We got to be the alliance captain and chose the team 5415 Tri Robotics and team 12529 KTM as our alliance partners. In our first semi final match, we won by 260-135. However, in our second semi final match, we lost by 220-240. Thus we went to the tie breaker where we lost in a close match, 245-295.
Overall, it was a successful season. We went to the World Championship and we built an impressive piece of engineering. Most importantly, we really bonded together as a club, and as a team.
Our robot, unofficially called “FIDO” was, and is an impressive piece of engineering. It fits perfectly into a 18×18 cube. It uses surgical tubing as its harvesting method for collecting particles or small balls. The particles then falls into the Thumper, or the launching mechanism that shoots the particle into the vortex. FIDO also has a great autonomous system.