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Field Build Today was the day that we raised the generator switch. What a pain in the ass. This is the single worst field element I’ve been apart of building. It took 10 people, two ladders and 40 minutes to raise the shield generator. Once we had both sides of the A frame up the
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Programming We had some issues trying to toggle the lime light’s light on or off. It was flickering randomly, this caused us to investigate the code deeper. We found that we were always returning true for isFinished(), which was causing the command to be recreated after every execution. We fixed that and moved on with
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Prototype Shooter Today we improved the prototype shooter. We added a base to the legs, and put some batteries for weight on the base. This improved our consistency significantly! The shooter was flexing before on each shot, but after our improvements it barely reacts to shooting a power cell. The shooter still has a slight
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Sundays are an optional attendance day for our team, because of this we had light attendance. We didn’t let this affect us and set off right to work with the dedicated students and mentors that showed up. Prototype Intake The intake prototype we cut yesterday was assembled rather quickly. Its a just two sheets of
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Yesterday we hosted a FLL competition at our high school. The event ran well and our students had fun interacting and working with the next generation of robotics students. We had some down time during the event. The scale on our dxf for the prototype intake was off, and we were held up trying to
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Field Build The field build team continues to cut parts and assemble pieces of the field, we have one of the generator switch sides done, and one of the supports for the generator switch. Seeing these pieces put together, I’m amused by the size of them. They are big. We have been continuing to cut
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Priority List Today we started the meeting with a strategy meeting involving ~10 people, mix of students and mentors. Our goal was to order out everything the robot is going to do and rank them in a priority list. We had a good discussion and ~30 minutes later we had a priority list. Drive Reliability,
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We started the meeting with a quick discussion about anything new that we’ve learned since kick off weekend. There was some discussion on scoring analysis, but so far we don’t think we’ve learned any information that would change our strategy. Double climbing is still hard. Up until today our best idea for a double climb
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Day One The first weekend of the build season was a flurry of activity. We managed to quickly go through the rules in our groups and presented five things that each group believed was important. Below are some of the highlights. Two (Station 1 and Station 3) of the driver stations are angled Robot sizing
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The off season in my mind has been a success. Our team has come so far compared to off season last year. We might not have finished all of our deliverables or goals but we have had students learning, training, and doing the work that we will be asking them to do during the real
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