CAD & Prototyping: We continued our sketches of potential robot concepts. One could pick up totes from their wide side, one could pick up totes from the narrow side. We talked through a basic CAD of a wide drive train and sent it off to prototyping to be built. The chassis for the drive train was completed using a Drive-in-a-day chassis. The wheels, and other components will go on later. In addition to this, lift prototypes were also built as seen in the images and videos below.
Controls: The new programmers were learning the libraries and the veteran programmers were reviewing the changes. The new programmers also wrote some sample code for motors and encoders and tested that code on a roboRIO with a VEX 393 Motor and Encoder to get in the habit of pushing and testing code as well as exploring how we debug robots.