We originally thought this would be an upgrade for after week 1, but it seems we have miraculously got it working. Here’s a little teaser from onboard the driver cameras. JK about teasers here’s the full thing Our Low & Mid elevator mounting/gearbox was designed to have holes for a traversal to mount to, but […]
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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 »
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
Additional Intake Info Read More »
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
FUN, Catapult, Drivetrain progress Read More »
