Philly Beacon Workshop

2016-2017 Season - Team Powered Workshop

Event Information

Date

Saturday December 10, 2016
12:45 pm - 4:00 pm

Venue

Freire Charter High School
2027 Chestnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Agenda

12:45 PMTeams Check-in
1:00 PMWorkshop Begins
4:00 PMEvent Complete

Team Powered

This event is hosted and managed by FTC Team 5488 RoboDragons.


Event Details

Workshop

Come with kits (including electronics), phones, programming laptop, and engineering notebook. Leave with a basic driving chassis and notebook entries. 2-3 students and an adult from each team will work on the mechanical and electrical build while 1-2 student programmers from each team prepare the Java code for remote control driving in another room.

What To Bring

These are hands on workshops. To get the most out of the workshops, please bring what you can of the following as appropriate for this workshop:

  • Programming laptop
  • FTC New Technology components: Electronics Modules (Base Kit) and/or Electronics Modules & Sensor Kit (Full Kit), USB cables
  • ZTE Speed phones, OTG USB cable, USB hub
  • Legacy components: DC Motor controllers, Servo controllers, Sensors, I2C cables
  • DC Motors, Servos, cables and wires, slotted screw driver
  • Robot parts – Tetrix, Matrix, and other parts
  • Tools
  • Logitech F310 Gamepads
  • Charged Tetrix batteries and charger
  • Power strip
  • Safety glasses

Team Registration Information

Participating Teams

Team # Team Name Organization Location
5506 Edison Robo Owls Edison High School Philadelphia, PA
5514 Robohounds Parkway Center City High School Philadelphia, PA
6540 Lincoln1 Abraham Lincoln High School Philadelphia, PA
6606 Dobbins Force Murrell Dobbins CTE Philadelphia, PA
8480 Technobots Philadelphia High School for Girls Philadelphia, PA
12003 Roboneers Frankford High School Philadelphia, PA
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