The shooter was mostly assembled today. The sides, shooter wheel, and conveyor were all assembled. We are still waiting on some pieces of polycarb that needs to be cut on the CNC router to finish the shooters assembly. The shooter is about 70% assembled. The holes needed to mount the shooter to the drive rail…

We had visitors in our shop today! Team 6377 Howdy Bots, another local Austin team stopped by to use our practice field. They have an amazing robot and I think they are going to do well at their event in Greenville. We get a chance to play with them in week five when we both…

Today was a roller coaster. CAD released 5 different shaft drawings to manufacturing, a total number of 32 shafts needed to be made. These shafts we for the shooter, and conveyor subsystems. Manufacturing set up an assembly line to make all of these shafts, we have four different people each working on a lathe doing…

The first round of qualification matches of infinite recharge is over, ISR District Event 1, finished this morning. Stage one (9 Power cells) was only achieved in 44% of the matches. Stage two was achieved in 0% of the matches. End game parking was achieved by 40% of the robots. While hanging was achieved by…

The robot continued to get upgrades today. The main breaker polycarb backing was upgraded to include additional mounting spots for the pressure gauges and regulator. The electronics board got some minor reworking with a dremel tool to make room to run some cables and make getting at some power poles easier. The big news of…

Assembly of the robot continued today. We noticed that our E clips kept falling off on the drive base, it turns out the distance between the groves was incorrect, there was too little room for the E clip to fit securely in the grove. The decision was made to drill and tap each shaft and…

The hook was finalized in CAD today, and the inner stage of the elevator got taken off before we could do the first lift test. Whoops. The elevator needs a few holes drilled in the final stage to mount the hook assembly. Here is a slightly out of date version of what the robot looks…

Progress was made!(In some areas…) We figured out what was happening with the issues we were having with the CAN bus last night. Not quickly tho, it took us most of the night to notice that a few of the CAN bus wires had been connected yellow to green.. This took us most of the…

Its the Tuesday after week six, historically its bag day! We are not necessarily at the point I’d like the team be at. If we had to bag the robot we’d have a intake version(non working), a untested climber, and a hopper. We would definitely be able to improve the intake, add a hook and…

Today was a day filled with progress. Most of the sub systems exist assembled, but not necessarily in the robot yet. We started and mostly finished and electronics board today, its a two level board with pdp, vrm, and pcm below. On top is 14 spark maxes, and roborio. Its the nicest electronics board we’ve…