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.
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Today we wrapped up our initial analysis of RAPID REACT℠ presented by The Boeing Company.
Kickoff Weekend Summary Read More »
Today’s update will be a smaller one as today was focused on understanding the rules and we purposefully didn’t get into any action prioritization or robot mechanisms.
As kickoff rapidly approaches, we have been finalizing our plans for how we are going to approach this year’s kickoff
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Welcome to the 2022 Mechanical Advantage #openalliance thread!
FRC 6328 Mechanical Advantage 2022 Build Thread Read More »
