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Author: Andrew Georgioff

Day 12 – Fixes and Progress (2/11/2021)

February 16, 2021 Author: Andrew Georgioff Category: 2021 Build Season

Despite only being three hours, today was a very productive day. The drivetrain was finally fixed and progress was made on mounting the new intake onto the practice bot.  Drivetrain As mentioned above, the drivetrain was fixed today! The issue we had encountered was due to the way the motor…

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Day 11 – Meetings and Drivetrain Testing (2/09/2021)

February 16, 2021 Author: Andrew Georgioff Category: 2021 Build Season

Authors: Pearl Jain, Andrew Georgioff Today was mostly continuing to perform tests to determine the Drivetrain issue. Despite much of the day being meetings, we still managed to pinpoint the issue down to two possible causes. Drivetrain: We were experimenting with adjustments made on Saturday when we identified another issue…

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Day 10 – Troubleshooting^2 (2/07/2021)

February 9, 2021 Author: Andrew Georgioff Category: 2021 Build Season

Authors: Andrew Georgioff Programming Much of today was spent on programming for the autonomous portion of the Infinite Recharge at Home competition, notably on the AutoNav challenge.  Above: The first of three paths in the AutoNav challenge Drivetrain Aside from programming, the other focus today was on troubleshooting the drivetrain…

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Day 9 – Testing and Troubleshooting (2/06/2021)

February 9, 2021 Author: Andrew Georgioff Category: 2021 Build Season

Authors: Andrew Georgioff Programming Most of the programming today was focused on fixing an issue. This issue (assumed to be with the encoders) was a problem with the distance tracking. The distance that the robot thought it moved (measured by the encoders recording the rotations of the motor) was extremely…

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Day 8 – Drivetrain Problems (1/31/2021)

February 2, 2021 Author: Andrew Georgioff Category: 2021 Build Season

Today was originally planned to be a split day, with several people finishing the plates for the new Intake, while we also started recording our practice attempts for the new challenges. While we accomplished one of these tasks, we were unable to record any practice attempts due to an issue…

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Day 7 – Fabrication and Organization. (1/30/2021)

February 2, 2021 Author: Andrew Georgioff Category: 2021 Build Season

We continued progress on our new intake today. Unfortunately, progress has been slower due to the limited tools we currently have access to, but we still are able to produce the parts in-house. We also received several containers for our new pit cart. Plate Fabrication We started fabricating the plates…

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Day 6 – Practice (Again) (1/24/2021)

January 25, 2021 Author: Andrew Georgioff Category: 2021 Build Season

Author: Andrew Georgioff Similar to yesterday, today we were mainly working in the commons (where we set up our field). Today was more focused on driver practice. Driver Practice Most of today was practicing the non-autonomous challenges for Infinite Recharge at Home. There was also a leak with pneumatics, but…

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Day 5 – Vision II (1/23/2021)

January 25, 2021 Author: Andrew Georgioff Category: 2021 Build Season

Author: Andrew Georgioff Due to the plates for our new intake being on hold for now, today was primarily a programming day. There were also other smaller tasks done today. We also made a modification to the Power Port so the balls fall on a ramp rather than down into…

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Day 4 – Disassembly (1/21/2021)

January 22, 2021 Author: Andrew Georgioff Category: 2021 Build Season

Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Pearl Jain     Today was a quieter day, with a smaller amount of people than other open room times. Due to this, plus being unable to set up the field, we decided to focus on disassembling unnecessary mechanisms and programming. Raspberry Pi The programming team has been…

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Day 3 – New intake progress (2/19/2021)

January 20, 2021 Author: Andrew Georgioff Category: 2021 Build Season

Authors: Andrew Georgioff Rollers We received the rubber tubing we ordered today! This shortage of rubber tubing was the main reason Sunday was mainly focused on practice (and a small amount of prototyping). At first we struggled to get the rubber over the plastic tubing, even when we were using…

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  • Day 9 – Testing and Troubleshooting (2/06/2021)
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