Canned Thoughts

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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I was talking to a few people on the team recently about where we struggled this season, we came to the conclusion that by end of week 4 all of our sub systems were at ~80% cad complete, besides drive train which was finished. We were definitely behind schedule. Having multiple unfinished subsystems, all with…

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Summer May is a sort of rest month for our team, seniors have graduated and classes are finally over. Regular meetings begin in June, with Monday, Thursday meetings 5 – 7 pm. We spent the first half of the month cleaning up the shop, unpacking the pits, and doing shop maintenance(cleaning machines, fixing machines, and…

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The ausTIN CANs have never won an event, we’ve only been finalists three times since 2007. One of those we gained this year. Historically we have placed a bit above the 1500 range for elo. This year was a great season for the team, with 4 official event plays, finishing with 30 wins 28 losses,…

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