<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RouxBots #9405]]></title><description><![CDATA[Empowering STEM Through Robotics and Community]]></description><link>https://www.rouxbots.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:01:54 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.rouxbots.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Chapter 2: There's no "off" in Offseason.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Recap of Chapter 2 On the first day of school, Mrs. Takes had seventeen students ready to build a robot. This was encouraging. It was also a problem. The Greenhorns were a brand-new FRC team. Their students had signed up for robotics because they had been promised, with reasonable confidence, that robotics would contain robots. They arrived bright-eyed, curious, and ready to begin their exciting engineering adventure. “What are we building?” “When do we get the robot?” “Can I drive?”...]]></description><link>https://www.rouxbots.com/post/chapter-2-buy-a-calendar-no-seriously</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa305c97f7369fb3bd0b74b</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:39:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/6zVG9WHwv6Y" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Chris Hatten</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chapter 1: Why Did You Agree to Do This?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maya graduated last spring. She had been on the robotics team for a few years, long enough to accumulate the usual assortment of team shirts, safety glasses, and opinions about mechanisms that no normal teenager should reasonably possess. One fall afternoon, a few months after graduation, she stopped by the robotics lab. This is something former students do. Sometimes they come to see the new robot. Sometimes they come because college has made them nostalgic for a room where somebody is...]]></description><link>https://www.rouxbots.com/post/chapter-1-why-did-you-agree-to-do-this</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a89da23f46f94d7c1a1f2ad</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:35:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/DdT_GycwvOI" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Chris Hatten</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preface: About the Human, the AI, and the Trail of Broken Things]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before we get too far into this book/blog/whatever form this thing will eventually take... Let's refer to it as a "FRC Success Guide" for now at least. That sounds a little pretentious for my taste but let's roll with it for now. There something you should know about how this FRC Success Guide was written. A substantial amount of the actual writing was produced with the help of AI. Kind of appropriate that a robot helps write a guide about running a robotics team. Eh?.. no.. ok. There. We...]]></description><link>https://www.rouxbots.com/post/preface-about-the-human-the-ai-and-the-trail-of-broken-things</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a89d030d586cd2fd6642fde</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:17:13 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Hatten</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>