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)
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…
Day 8 – Drivetrain Problems (1/31/2021)
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…
Day 7 – Fabrication and Organization. (1/30/2021)
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…
Day 6 – Practice (Again) (1/24/2021)
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…
Day 5 – Vision II (1/23/2021)
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…
Day 4 – Disassembly (1/21/2021)
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…
Day 3 – New intake progress (2/19/2021)
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…
Day 2 – Practice (1/17/2021)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff Practicing the new challenges While yesterday was spent fabricating parts for the new intake, today was spent primarily adjusting to the new challenge and deciding the approach we wanted to take for them. One notable change we made was adding a “net” behind the power port. This…
Day 1 – Build Season? (1/16/2021)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff 2021 Season! As you have likely noticed, this is the first post of the 2021 season blog! Due to COVID-19 cutting the 2020 season short, FIRST is doing a different set of challenges for the 2021 season called Infinite Recharge at home, with several challenges. The full…