1/10 - Rally at ORyon

The team was again relocated to Ryon's Lab here at Rice University to provide a more spacious working environment. The focus for the day included continuing work on the prototype, as well as finalizing our FRC season (competition) design on CAD.

Electrical Subdivision

The team spent the morning cutting and stripping wires to accommodate for a new power distribution module that just arrived. Also, they completed the assembly for 2 of the three power distribution boards will we need for our three planned robots.






Programming Subdivision

Veteran programmers worked alongside newer "codelings" to try and score the maximum number of points during the robot's autonomous mode; tested the basic code for this on our prototype robot.






Prototyping + Mechanical + Design

These three subdivisions collaborated to adjust and finalize our 2015 FRC robot's final design scheme - weighed the pros and cons of various drive trains (etc.) - and continued their work on our prototype from last week. A smaller subsection comprised of experienced members + mentors of each of these divisions also tried to optimize the Beetle Juice robot design for the 2015 playing field.