The intake is still in it’s prototype phases, so we don’t have all of the details ironed out yet but are hoping to get there in the next few days. We’ve been testing it some and we’re looking to post some more about it in our next blog post(s), but here’s some additional information to […]
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FIRST Updates Now Interview We had a great time on the FUN Open Alliance show a few nights ago. We were able to cover quite a lot of information during the 20 minute interview including prototype, software/odometry/logging, and scouting updates. You can find the livestream VOD here, as well as an excellently shot and edited video
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Business Plans Our FRC and FLL business plans were last updated for the 2020 season and were 49 and 30 pages long respectively. (Sincere apologies to the event judges.) I don’t know if the new 3-page-limit was put in place for 2021 (we never got around to updating in the chaos of last year) or if it’s new
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Last year, we started our vision journey by auto-aiming just with the horizontal angle from our Limelight. However, we quickly realized the utility of calculating the robot’s position based on a vision target instead. By integrating that data with regular wheel odometry, we could auto-aim before the target was in sight, calculate the distance for
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This past week, the Scouting and Strategy Team worked to further analyze the game as well as begin work on our scouting app for this year. Below you can find a summary of what we have accomplished, what we have found useful, and what we haven’t. Strategy Throughout the week, we looked at ways to
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Our robot code work this week was focused on setting up a solid foundation for our 2022 code base. Below are a few key takeaways; while none of this is particularly revolutionary, we hope that it might prove useful. AdvantageKit, Logging, and Multi-Robot Support This is our first full project to make use of AdvantageKit and our
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Scouting App The scouting team started work on the scouting app for this year. One of the ideas they came up with was recording the exact location a team shot from by tapping on the field. This requires having an accurate field modeled in the app UI. The scouting team will do a much larger
Day 5-6: Launcher Prototypes, Scouting App, & Drivetrain CAD Read More »
Small update today on a first shooter prototype, a linear pneumatic catapult.
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Following on from our priority list the team started working on prototyping, setting up the software framework for 2022 on an old robot, and strategy came up with their game plan for the season.
Day 3: Prototyping Begins Read More »
Today we wrapped up our initial analysis of RAPID REACT℠ presented by The Boeing Company.
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