2/6-7 - Time flies.

Team members stayed late Friday at Carnegie before shifting to RYON Labs (8 AM - 9PM) for one last time before the end of the FRC build season. Friday and Saturday, sub-teams finalized CAD designs and paint schemes while others assembled & painted the competition robot's parts with the utmost precision. Meetings are set to last till 8 PM every day for the upcoming week to perform lift and drive train tests on the competition robot (our goal for tonight is to finish assembling the framework for the final robot, at least). Driver practice will also continue with our Robot v1 and Betelgeuse, and hopefully, with the competition robot too :)

Programming + Mechanical + Electrical (now Assembly sub team)

Electrical sub-teams completed assembly of all the individual wiring for the competition robot and merged with mechanical and prototyping sub teams to work on assembling the framework for Robot v2. Electrical sub team will come back online afterwards when they need to wire up the lifts and drive trains. Programming is focusing on installing LiDAR, and has completed installing buttons (sensors for recognizing tote positions) and has also added driver skill encoders - now they're just coding it all in!

Prototyping + CAD

CAD sub team directed the assembly of individual competition robot parts (measured and marked out areas to cut / drill and detailed assembly procedures), simultaneously working alongside the other sub teams to get parts cranked out and painted and finally, assembled into the framework for the robot. *cross your fingers for the Reveal, coming soon :)*

2/2- Aaaaaand there's a time crunch?!

Just in case you've forgotten - only 15 days to go, Discobots, GO! Email went out today-

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Sheet metal has come in today for the competition robot, and we're cutting and drilling like crazy to get this painted quick! Look at all the busy busy work people are doing while we take pictures of them.





Also requires construction of a drying rack in order to hang all these pieces and paint all sides at once, as seen here:

There are also a couple minor changes between the practice and the competition robots, which requires some of our team to pump out some shiny new CAD's! The final competition design will include an elongation of the drive train (just by a few inches to remedy the horrible center of gravity on our v1 Robot) and a much more effective manipulator (we know what we're doing now :P)


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[CAD pictures to come soon]