Hey all! We would like to start this post by saying thank you to all of the volunteers and organizers at the Central Illinois Regional. They make these competitions not just possible, but they also make them run smoother than the cream cheese you put on your bagel during breakfast. Our entire team had a great experience at this competition. We had a perfect opportunity to try the new modification on our bot at the Read more
Welcome everyone! It’s been a while since our last blog update, for good reason however as we spent the past weekend at Princeton IN for our first competition of the year!! Overall we did very well for ourselves. Taking fifth place in the competition going 7-6 -1. We were also able to win the Engineering Inspiration Award thanks to the hard work of our team. We’ll continue to bring updates as the week comes to Read more
Hey all! Happy Valentines Day! Let’s see what the team has been up to this past week.The electronics team has been super busy! They wired up the bot and its arm received and tested 6 new batteries, adjusted the movement of the arm, worked on autonomous, tested the grabber, and continued to program.The assembly team has also had a lot on its plate. This section of the team has moved motors, added pneumatic cylinders to Read more
Welcome back to the weekly recap everyone! We’ve got some incredible news to share with you this week that we hope you’ll enjoy. To start out one of the most exciting things that happened over the last week was a number of our members heading down to the statehouse on Wednesday. They were there as part of a group effort of robotics teams around Indiana in an attempt to get a bill related to school Read more
Welcome everyone! It’s been a while since our last blog post, but we have lots to talk about! Our second and third weeks of the season went well here at CYBER BLUE. Our students were able to finish our home-built field elements in record time, painting them all the same royal blue we paint most of our equipment in. As well as this, with the tireless work of our electronics and manufacturing team we were Read more
Ever since the FIRST Robotics Announcement video of the 2023 Season, Cyber Blue has remained hard at work to both understand this new game as well as recreating the Field elements to the highest degree possible to allow us to perfect our machine. In doing this, several new students and returning students have been given the opportunity not only to watch a table saw in action but even use it themselves. Many other students were Read more
Happy New Year and a happy new season! It’s been 8 months since our last update, and we are going to start this new year off clean with a recap of what you may have missed during our 2022 season.Our previous season, Rapid React, was a more productive season than the COVID-19 shutdown season. One thing that made us more productive was the number of people that joined in contrast to the few that we Read more
Hi everybody, it’s Chris again. We at Cyber Blue are glad to be back in the building after our long and hard competition season this year. A lot happened during these events if you wish to check it out for yourself you can take a look at Indiana’s FIRST Robotics Competition’s official YouTube page right here at this link- FIRSTINRobotics – YouTube Our first competition at Columbus went rather well. For a number of our Read more
Hello, there I’m Chris from Cyber Blue’s Media Team! With competition dates coming closer and closer, some people are probably wondering what we’ve been doing over the past couple of weeks and how the robot has been coming along. Allow me to pass it to my teammate Callie to fill you in on some of the latest happenings here at Cyber Blue. Hey there, it’s Callie and I’m here to give you the inside scoop Read more
The 2022 build season has begun! After two long years, we are excited to get back to a normal FRC season. The game for this year is RAPID REACT ℠, presented by The Boeing Company. The game starts with a fifteen second autonomous period, and the remaining two minutes and fifteen seconds is the teleoperated period. During autonomous, robots will leave their tarmacs and attempt to score the two starting cargo. During teleop, players take control Read more