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MONKEY BUSINESS News of the Funky Monkeys, Lynbrook High School Robotics, FIRST® Team 846 Winter 2019 Volume 26 MONKEY BUSINESS News of the Funky Monkeys, Lynbrook High School Robotics, FIRST® Team 846 Editor­in­Chief Table of Contents Shriyanshu Kode 1 In a Studio Far Far Away; Successful Season of Workshops; Blasting Off at Offseason Competitions; Unboxing Monkey Box 2 Exploring the Pits 3 Monkeys on the Move Successful Season In a Studio Far Far of Workshops Away... New Members Learning the Ropes Anna S. (sr.) and Kunal S. (sr.) explore Lucasfilm Catherine Zheng (jr.) Anna Shaposhnik (sr.) tepping into the doors of Industrial SLight and Magic (ILM) we were sur- rounded by characters we know and love: R2-D2, Darth Vader, BB-8. Seeing them on screen, sometimes we forget that behind each, are teams that mastermind every de- tail. On September 23rd, we traveled to San Francisco to meet one such team, the team Kunal S. (sr.) and Anna S. (sr.) behind the animation of Rogue One’s K- posing with R2­D2. 2SO droid. work on big hits like Star Wars, Jurassic The animation workshop led by Anna S. Industrial Light and Magic, a division of Park, and Back to the Future. While many (sr.) completing an activity. film production company Lucasfilm, is a people pass through their doors for tours, very year, dozens of new members visual effects company legendary for its we were invited by FIRST to film a video Ejoin our team, eager to learn the skills see Lucasfilm Visit, page 4 necessary to build a competitive robot. At Lynbrook, we hold workshops to teach and prepare rookie members for Build Season. Blasting Off at Offseason Competitions Our workshops are fully lead by students, Cheesing Around at Going Bananas at CalGames who were, just a few years ago, like the Chezy Champs Anitez Gautam (soph.) freshmen: enthusiastic to learn. We hold Joonha Hwang (jr.) workshops for all aspects of our team, from alGames is an off-season competition see Workshops, page 4 ellarmine College Preparatory. It is Chosted by the Western Region Robotics Bhome to, arguably, the world’s best Forum (WRRF) that our team takes part in team: Team 254, The Cheesy Poofs. Since every year. The competition includes nu- Unboxing 2014, it has also been home to what may be the most competitive offseason event: Monkey Box Chezy Champs. Team 846, The Funky The revival of our video series Monkeys, have attended this invitational Joseph Liu (jr.) offseason competition since its beginning; this past September, the team was back at hree years ago, a member named James Bellarmine, facing off against some of the TJiao began an initiative for our team to world’s best teams. create educational videos to post online for But even before the competition started, other teams to learn from. He called this the odds were stacked against the team. series “Monkey Box,” and he created 2 epis- Caleb Sykes, a renowned FRC analyst, odes about ball centering and our team’s noted in his Chezy Champs match schedule Girl’s Subsystem Challenge. While the pro- analysis that “846 has a pretty awful ject has stayed dormant for a while, we re- schedule.” We would have to compete cently revived the series with a new episode against some of the world’s best teams, SpaceRex on the level 3 platform about Spring Counterbalancing. including 254, 1678, 1619, and 971 (twice!), in a match at CalGames. see Monkey Box, page 2 see Chezy Champs, page 3 see CalGames, page 3 © FIRST Team 846 The Funky Monkeys Vol. 26 LynbrookRobotics.com | Page 1 subsystem, just like us. Monkey Box, Continued... Exploring the Pits Interviewing around at the Silicon When one of the team’s former mem- Behind the Workings of FRC Teams Valley Regional also introduced me to a bers told me about Monkey Box, I thought new type of FRC teams: community it was awesome right out of the gate. I Tishya Chhabra (soph.) teams. Most teams are school-affiliated, loved the silly but informative presenting like us. However, there are some teams style and I was intrigued by the professional obot! Robot coming through! Ah, the that are community teams, where the feel of the videos. I wanted to get involved Rpits. It’s a cramped area, each with a members are from multiple schools in the with the project, but I didn’t know who to team and their entire shop condensed into a area. Team Deep Blue Vision explained ask or where to start. But when someone on few racks. Members are constantly moving, that they were operating out of two the team came to me and wanted to kick- some rushed to make last-minute fixes, start Monkey Box, I immediately hopped on while others are more relaxed, discussing board with the project. After choosing the and conversing with other teams. I had the topic that we wanted to present, getting opportunity to go to the Silicon Valley equipment ready, and writing the script, we Regional at San Jose State University; being finally got to the part that originally drew a rookie, it was my first ever competition, so me into the project, which was the filming. I decided to visit the pits and learn more Although it took long hours and many takes about all the teams in FRC. to get the footage, in the end the episode It was quite a task, going around, finding looked great, and I was really happy with teams that weren’t too preoccupied, hastily the results. stepping aside as another robot makes its way into the pits after a match on the field, going up to teams with a smile, and asking “I’ll definitely be looking questions. I wanted to gain a broader sense Tishya Chhabra (soph.) interviews team of the big picture, of how other teams work 6665, Nuns and Bolts, at the Silicon forward to making new episodes as well. So, when we weren’t on the field, I Valley Regional. was on a field of my own, learning and garages, both of which were a bit of a of Monkey Box!” absorbing as much as I could. drive from their schools. Additionally, A key difference I found between our resources and sponsors were hard to find, Helping to create this new episode of team and a number of others was the their only source of funding being the Monkey Box was a super awesome experi- variety of ways different teams train members’ parents. However, all the ence. Not only did I have a blast with the rookies. For one, there are many teams, like members they have are quite dedicated; other people on the team when we were The Cheesy Poofs, Deep Blue Robotics, and one of the main reasons they pulled filming and prepping, I also got experience Barn2Robotics, who require all their through was because of the passion that in being one of the leads for a major team members to have basic training in the team has. project. I even learned a little bit about machining. Team 1868, The Space Cookies, At the regional, there were a couple of spring counterbalancing. Going into the fu- even requires all their girls to do some form teams that had some very unique aspects. ture, we’re planning to create even more of business, whether it be working on an For one, team 6421, CowTech Robotics, is Monkey Box videos including ones on how animation video or writing to sponsors. a team that builds their robot almost we counterbalance the lifts on our robots There were also some teams, like Cardinal entirely out of wood. They have a laser and how we calculate our acceleration Robotics, who had their rookies go through curves using an oscilloscope. If you’re inter- a mock build season in the offseason with ested, all of our Monkey Box videos are on the previous year’s game so they could have “It made me realize how, not the Lynbrook Robotics YouTube channel! an idea of how build season will go. The Iron Panthers even require all of their only me, an individual, but the incoming freshmen to join their FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) first before coming entire team is part of to their FRC team. A majority of teams, like something so much bigger.” teams 649 and 6043, have fall workshops, with separate workshops for each cutter and oven specifically for their wood- working purposes. One of the leads said that CowTech Robotics started with the whole wood concept to spread more awareness about biodegradable robots. Team 4171, the BayBots, started off as well-sized team, but by the middle of build season, they only had two people building the entire robot! It was difficult for them, Joonha H. (jr.), Sam P. (jr.), and Joseph but with the help of mentors, they were L. (jr.) after filimg a Monkey Box episode able to pull through and attend the Silicon about counterbalancing. Valley Regional with a functioning robot. Overall, helping to lead the revival of the Going through the pits, meeting so monkey box video series wasn’t just fun, it A member from team 4171, the many teams and conversing with them also helped me get more experience leading Baybots, and Tishya Chhabra (soph.) projects. I’ll definitely be looking forward to after a pit interview. see FRC Teams, page 4 making new episodes of Monkey Box! © FIRST Team 846 The Funky Monkeys Vol. 26 LynbrookRobotics.com | Page 2 Chezy Champs, Continued... and the reigning world-champion, team 973, more daunting than the tough qualification the Greybots. Caleb Sykes predicted that the matches.
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