Authors: Andrew Georgioff Today was a quieter day, with mostly meetings and CAD occurring. There were programming and summer camps meetings, as well as a team meeting, though many members spent the day finalizing CAD drawings to be sent to CEM. Summer Camps Meeting There was another meeting to discuss…
Day 24 – The Return of the SOLIDWORKS (1/27/2020)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Danny Georgioff, Intro Today was a CAD day as we are aiming to send CAD to CEM tomorrow. Printer Today, we got a printer donated from Stratasys! We are currently working with Stratasys to set up a training session and get it fully set up with materials,…
Day 23 – Wheel Selection (1/26/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Wheel of Fortune The completed Control Panel/Wheel of Fortune was brought in today. This allowed us to clearly see how much space you had when driving underneath it. In the future, this will allow us to test mechanisms and code for completing the control panel…
Day 22 – Wheels Down! (1/25/2020)
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…