Today the robot was mostly reserved for programming. But first we changed the ultra planetary gearboxes on the singulator to a lower reduction(I think 5:1, used to be 20:1). This has eliminated most dead zones(we only saw 1 in an hour of driving practice). The cargo starts in the previous dead zone and doesn’t get…

Today, a few students, before the meeting started swapped around the intake rollers, they put the stiffer wheels on the back bar. They also took this opportunity to flip the bearings and add more wheels. We are trying to eliminate a dead zone between one of our vertical rollers and the side of the intake.…

At the start of the meeting I took a little bit of time to clean up the mess of wires that the top four motors resulted in. It didn’t take long but I was able to make it look so much nicer. Then we added the lime light and wired it up. Next was a…

Today we did the team recap, and watched a few different videos, final matches from week zero, and 1690’s reveal video. The slides say week seven recap, we must have gained a week some where. The recap has a brief bit from each subgroup and some FRC trivia. We also opened suggestions to name the…

Bonus day! The students have no school today so we managed to sneak in a very productive extra meeting. We only had 6 students show up(not all at once either) but it was a very productive day. The students filtered in slowly, 9:00am is way too early of a start for most of them. Eventually…

Its starting to look like a robot! Lets just show the picture now and we can talk about all of the progress that was made today. The intake is assembled, the climbers are assembled and mounted and the vertical rollers for the CDS finished assembly but not mounted yet. The intake finished assembly today. We…

Today we decided to tackle the controls discussion again. I started by drawing a diagram of the flow the driver takes through out the match. Then I added on additional options for the operator being in control of which position to shoot from. From there the team could pretty clearly see why not having the…

Assembly pain begins, the intake is progressing slowly, the climber is making some steps forwards and more steps backwards. The team assembling the intake discovered they placed the 1 x 1 supports on the bottom at the incorrect location about halfway through today. It was also discovered some of the shafts we made had been…

Today was tiring and frustrating. The day started off well, we retook the team pictures and did better this time, you know people looking at the camera and not making stupid hand signs. Simple stuff. The day went down hill after dinner. A Cad student and a manufacturing student set off on assembly of the…

Today was an optional meeting, allowing students some make up attendance if they need it. We only had 4 students show up today. We had two programmers and two manufacturing students. The two manufacturing students started finishing the remaining operations on the fixed tube of the climber. These parts didn’t fit in the Haas so…