After a progress filled day yesterday its only natural that today feels like we got nothing done. But we did get stuff done. There are 23 Days until week one starts. Its setting in how little time we have left and how much we still need to get done. The remaining systems to finish are…

Progress! Today was a good day, it felt like all of the past fourish weeks have amounted to something. We have visible progress on 2/4 of the sub systems with CAD coming along for the remaining 2 systems. Programming Today the programming team spent a lot of time running paths on the 2019 robot. We…

Today was TShirt day! We handed out new shirts to every one on the frc and vex teams, then did a team picture afterwords. We also got our new benches in today. CAD The elevator feels like it has been at ~98% complete for the last few meeting days. Then we find something small wrong,…

CAD Today was a low turn out day, we had some more details put into the fly wheel shooter assembly, getting the correct belts, pulleys and center to center distance in the assembly. The elevator also got the cross bracing added and some tweaks on mounting gussets. I brought my dog Annie to the shop…

Programming Today programming continued work on the new path following implementation. We struggled with the Ramestate controller and spent most of the time debugging why our gyro wasn’t giving any value change when turning. CAD The prototype intake and hopper were meshed together as one unit today. The intake geometry has a bit to much…

Programming The programming team worked today on fixing code review comments. This is the first year we are doing full code reviews of code before they get merged into the master branch. This has been helpful for the students by improving their code quality and catching tricky bugs. Today two independent teams were working on…

Manufacturing Today we got an outer gear box plate cut as the meeting was winding down. The first attempt at the outer gearbox mysteriously had the features offset by ~.1″ which lead to bearing holes not lining up with the outer plate. All of the plates had the holes made on the manual mill. We…

Today was a flurry of work. We started with the meeting with a short recap and an announcement that we are behind schedule. This time was always coming, and I’m some what relieved that its happened as now we don’t have to question if we are behind, its just a simple yes. Manufacturing The practice…

Manufacturing Today was mostly spent working on setting up gearbox plates to be run on the Haas. We changed our plans on how we are going to hold the work down whilst machining them, and are now using a fixture plate. We got stalled on prepping the fixture plate until tomorrow so we just did…

Manufacturing Today manufacturing finished two drive rails on the Haas, this part was fully done using cam and both pieces came out great. They also prepped plates that will soon become gear box plates. The first plates we cut on the router had incorrect bearing holes and the outer plate we cut didn’t align with…