2020 Build Season Week 6
This week was a lot of mechanical assembly, and we finally have a semi-final iteration of our robot put together. Paly Robotics scrimmage On Sunday, we went to a scrimmage hosted by Team 8 Paly Robotics. ...
2020 Build Season Week 5
On Monday, we practiced controlling the position of our intake arm and tested it in conjunction with our intake. On Tuesday, we had a planning meeting with our software mentor, Aaron. We laid out...
2020 Build Season Weeks 1 to 4
Week 1 On Monday, we finished the electronics board for our mock drivetrain. On Thursday, held a planning meeting with a software mentor and drove our mock drivetrain! On Friday, we started laying out electronics for the final robot and flashed our Limelight. Week 2 I was out...
San Francisco Regional 2019
Here are lessons learned from our first competition this season. Some of these are easily preventable. Some of these require more thought next year. Securely mount battery (lying flat is best). In one match the battery came out of the robot and in another it hit the breaker. Currently...
2019 Build Season Week 6
Highlights of this week: We wired the elevator using igus energy chain and coiled pneumatic tubing. We moved driver camera streaming from the Jetson to the roboRIO side. We’re using WPILib’s built in camera server and this solved our lag problem to an acceptable range....
2019 Build Season Week 5
Highlights of the week: We almost finished wiring our pneumatics system. The compressor, pressure relief valve, pressure switch, stored pressure gauge, and 6 solenoid manifold are all mounted. Silvan helped us test the cargo intake system. We diagnosed leaks and the control code. ...
2019 Build Season Week 4
Electrical Our competition electronics board is in driving condition! We mounted and wired our RoboRio, VRM, PCM, 8 Talon SRX’s, and 4 Victor SPX’s. The main breaker, radio, and RSL are still hanging around. We used Wago Lever Nuts for the first time to connect the CAN bus....
2019 Build Season Week 3
Robot Software We received a more final design consensus from the design team. Almost all subsystem and command classes have been created to allow for driver control. This includes: Drivetrain, Elevator, Feeder, Grabber, CargoExtender, and Hatch. This upcoming week we hope to test our code on an assembled...
2019 Build Season Week 2
Computer Vision We met up with Ron, a new mentor this year, to discuss vision techniques and try out different cameras and lighting. We used the Microsoft Lifecam HD-3000, Canon DSLR, MacBook Pro Facetime HD Camera, and the iPhone XS Max camera. We used red LED rings,...
2019 Build Season Week 1
Our first programming meeting took place on Wednesday (1/9/2019). We went over the build season schedule and goals for programming members. Students who were in the Beginning Programming group are expected to be comfortable writing robot code and wire basic FRC robots by the end of the semester. Students coming...
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