Intake prototype team wrapped up with a final few tests today. We wanted to see if we could use spacers on the dual over head rollers to reduce the quantity of compliant wheels. Turns out you can use 1/4″ spacers between each wheel. Attempting to use 1/2″ spacers didn’t work, the cone would get stuck…

Today we tested the 2″ compliant wheels in the dual overhead roller. The durometer of the wheels didn’t seem to make much of a difference. The left side has 60A compliant wheels while the right side is a variety of softer ones. This intake worked well enough that we’ll be making the first refined version…

It felt like a slow day today. Everyone was working but things are in progress / in the middle still. Progress is being made on multiple fronts, just nothing to show from it today. The bumpers got their mounting system attached. This year we have 3D printed spring latches that hold the bumper. Its very…

The meeting started with a quick team recap from the sub group leads. Next we announced our primary and secondary driver for the season. Together people interested in practicing for driver have had 453 timed practice runs since we started back in November. We’ve selected the two main drivers so they can get the most…

Prototyping Today our prototyping was focused on iterating upon the vectored intake wheel prototypes. While testing the 2″ vectored intake wheels we discovered that if we lowered the back roller there was less cone material to get stuck on. The back roller was moved and we put the 4″ vectored intake wheels on. Okay lets…

Assembly and Field Build The competition robot assembly began today. The swerve modules were mounted to the new drive rails. Next the frame was squared up and secured. The top brain pan and bottom belly pan were cut on the router and are ready to be installed. Electronics will start going in on Saturday. The…

Field Build The alliance grid is almost complete. The last three grid pieces are assembled, they need to get bolted together and moved into place. There was good news on the charging station front today, we bent a small test piece and nothing broke. The charging station build is now full steam ahead again, the…

To start the day we tested the dual over head rollers which are using PVC rollers from our 2020 robot. This prototype didn’t work well, the first roller doesn’t seem to have enough grip to pull the cones in. We decided to take a small break from our weed wacker prototype to explore using vectored…

Prototyping To start the meeting we started working down the list of improvements to try with the weed wackers. The prototype moved off the dolly and onto a kit bot with bumpers(some old bumpers that didn’t quiet fit but got convinced with a hammer). The first change was increasing the spacing between each axis and…

Prototyping and Testing It was a day dedicated to testing and assembly of prototypes! Which is great because that means we are learning what works and what doesn’t work. Today we assembled the 2 jointed arm prototype to prove that the geometry works. It is just able to reach the high goal it will get…