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Prototype Arm During testing today it was discovered the “choochoo” mechanism is under powered. It had mounting pattern for another motor so we added that, we’ll test it again tomorrow. We probably will have to rework that gearbox to increase the reduction. But we did manage to test the “choochoo” mechanism by hold up the…
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So we are behind schedule, probably were behind before the ice storm but are certainly far behind now. Its 18 days until week one competitions start. That means it is that time of the year for Sunday meetings again. This past Sunday’s meeting was focused around testing and debugging the code for the arm. By…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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