Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Climbing We received and assembled the generator switch (climbing bar) using ladders as temporary supports. This allowed us to more realistically test the climber and roughly test the effect of spacing and weight on the switch angle. Through this testing, we determined that it should…
Day 21 – Vision Returns (01/24/2020)
Authors: Ishan Shetty, Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra, Ravisha Jaiswal Vision Today, the programmers spent some effort making the Limelight work on Sergeant Sammy. After getting familiar with both the 2020 version of WPILib (there are several important differences that impeded progress) and the example code provided in the Limelight documentation,…
Day 20 – Cleanup (1/23/2020)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Intro Today, less things happened in the room because it ended at 5:30pm instead of 9pm, not that there was a lot to do anyways. We are still waiting on drivetrain spacers before we can finish assembling the gearboxes onto the frame. We are currently…
Day 18 – Flywheel Selection (1/21/2020)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Introduction On Friday, we did not have open room because of really bad weather. The school day ended two hours earlier, allowing us to spend more time working in Solidworks on robot design. On Saturday, the FTC teams that we mentor at the local middle…
Day 13 – Prototype Voting (1/16/2020)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Introduction Tomorrow, there is no open room due to inclement weather On Saturday, 3 of the 4 FTC teams at the local middle school are competing at the Burnsville FTC qualifier. It will be the birthday of Ryan the Scouting Lead on Monday. Since we…
Day 12 – CAD, Caterpillars, and Cool Beans
Drivetrain progress: Parts, CAD Today, some significant progress was made on the drivetrain! CAD Today, a significant CAD update was made. Specifically, the wheel wells were widened from 3.25 inches to 3.5 inches. This will allow us to use the brackets we already have laying around for robot assembly. The…
Day 11 – Makeshift Hood (1/14/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra Single Flywheel Yesterday, we finished the wooden parts of our makeshift hood. Today, we attached the wood profiles to the 80/20 frame. We also stole some plastic from the defunct turntable prototype. This plastic was form-fitted to the wooden hood profile in order to make the hood…
Day 10 – Send CADs (1/13/2020)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra, Sarthak Agrawal Introduction We received our power cells in the mail today and learned that they were even grippier than we expected. We also had our Noodles & Company fundraiser today and had a successful turnout. Also, we got our power port field element today! …
Day 9 – Balance (1/12/2020)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra Double Flywheel Testing We continued testing of the double flywheel today, this time with different angles. During some early testing, we found that the shafts extending past the bearings on both sides were causing balance issues. We cut the shaft to the needed length and…
Day 8 – Testing the Flywheel (1/11/2020)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra, Danny Georgioff Introduction Today was Isaac Ash’s birthday. He is our senior engineering captain. Happy birthday, Isaac! Also, today, one of the FTC teams at the middle school had their league qualifier. Sadly, they were ranked 20th of 25 and did not make it to…