I was going to make a post on this shortly, but with the madness of preparing for the event I haven’t gotten around to the full write up. Up until Friday we had what is in the CAD with a single roller, but weren’t happy with how it was performing. We had problems with bounce […]
As we ramp up to our first competition at Granite State next weekend, we’ve been making lots of refinements in both software and hardware (plus many hours of driver practice). I’ll focus mostly on software features, others can add on anything I’ve missed. Many thanks to our friends at Teams 1100 and 2168 for allowing
Software Update #4: Pre-Competition Smorgasbord Read More »
Our high level robot concept has been the same for a while, but there are tons of updates to the lower level details. This post walks through where we were before and the high level feedback which lead to our design changes. This feedback comes from a combination of internal discussions and reviews with @davepowers. There’s
Initial Design Iterations Read More »
We were very excited to appear on The Open Alliance Show by FIRST Updates Now 5 Ball Auto | Robot Frame | CAD Overview | 6328 Mechanical Advantage | The Open Alliance Show
The Open Alliance Show – Feb 16, 2022 Read More »
Sorry for the delay in posts, we’ve been super busy finishing up the design and getting all the facts straight. We’ve been making and assembling lots of parts already too, but that will be saved for a slightly later post to keep this one resonable. Top-level Robot Design We’re still putting some finishing touches on
CAD & Design Update Read More »
Going into this build season, we wanted a simple way to operate motors on prototypes. Before we went mostly brushless in 2020, we’d hook up prototypes to the Talon SRX’s on a kit-bot, but that was always a little clunky. For 2020 prototyping, we ran Neos’ SparkMax controllers on a janky SB50-to-PowerPole cable without overcurrent
Simple Flexible Motor Test Rig Read More »
This week, we now have a drivable robot, a prototype intake, and a motion profiling system ready to go. What is there to do but write a few auto routines? Even without a shooter, we can still test most of the important functionality. After some discussion with the strategy team, we began work on the
Software Update #3: “Follow the yellow brick trajectory!” Read More »
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