Prebuilding

Ted Goulet

This is my second year with the team. My son joined BERT as a freshman in 2009 and I hung around and helped out where ever I could. The opportunity came up at the end of the 2009-2010 season for some new folks to run the team. Although I hadn't even entertained the thought of taking it over, I was strongly convinced to do this by the former leadership. So now I am an advisor along with Scott Tracy. It is very rewarding helping out the students. It's great to see them come up with ideas when given a task and I'm looking forward to see what we come up with for the 2010-2011 competiton.

Update, Sunday Morning, February 13th

We have the mini-bot pretty much done. We're working on the switching method, but it climbs the pole great. We need to finish up the mini-bot deployment method which will happen when the arm is up and running. The drive system is all mounted and wired in it's final configuration. Programming updates are being done. The grabbing arm and claw is installed and the motors are being mounted this morning. We still have allot of little things to finish up to make the arm and claw work, but expect that to be done today.

Malinda Goulet

Malinda became a mentor in the 2010-2011 season, when her husband Ted became an advisor. She does all behind the scenes organization and accounting and keeping the team on budget. She helps with other fundraising projects such as sponsor letters, bottle drives, cookie dough and bake sales. She also takes care of making hotel reservations, ordering of supplies and spirit committee items, such as t-shirts, hats, and giveaways.

The BERT133 Quick-Release Bumper System

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Adding the bumpers to the robot.

The requirement for a quick-release bumper system prompted many great ideas. The team came up with one that we have never seen used before (thanks Ron). The bumpers were outfitted with a piece of u-channel that would slip over the robot frame. This u-channel attached to the frame with quick-release hitch pins (ball-spring-detente type) allowing for fast removal and installation.

Bumper Construction #1

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Putting the cloth covering on the bumpers.

FIRST Robotics, Team 133 brainstorming

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