1/30 - For the record...

For those of you disappointed in our lack of build logs in the past few days - there's good news on the horizon: Build logs will be resuming, with almost daily posts from here on out to the end of the 2015 FRC season.

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Today's log documents the awesome work we accomplished on our Robot v1, a.k.a. the Practice Bot.

Design / Prototyping Team

Here's a first look at Robot v1, with the manipulator being heavily modified to combat some things we noticed with Betelgeuse (unstable when carrying 3 totes) and the lift-catch mechanism (very hard to aim, latch on and remain latched).

Max was able to complete a fully detailed CAD module of our robot, including its manipulator and drive train. His sub team will now focus on optimizing performance of the entire robot. They are currently experimenting with tweaking the length of the chassis prior to the competition robot build, set to start here at Carnegie within the next few days.

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Please note that, due to server issues for the last 10 days or so, this Build Log may contain images from unpublished days to showcase the team effort throughout.


Electrical + Mechanical + Programming 

 


Perhaps the busiest team thus far, electrical sub team has been cooperating with mechanical & design teams to (a) design and implement an upside down electrical basin to house our competition robot's electronics grids (Talons, Vectors...) (b) install a sonar light on Betelgeuse and (c) complete drive train electronics wiring for the competition robot (v2). Pictured above are both Mechanical & Electronic sub teams. Programming has been focusing on adding limiting switches to Betelgeuse's manipulator lift, in cooperation with the aforementioned teams. They are also continuing their work on autonomous game brainstorming and coding.