Here’s a quick update with some of our final changes before heading to Houston! During our last event, we noticed that this happened a few times: After extensive analysis, the strategy team has concluded that this sort of behavior is apparently “bad.” To prevent this from happening in the future, we added a color sensor along the […]

As we complete the final preparations before shipping our robot to Houston, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on some software topics from our last event at Greater Boston. Odometry Tuning With a new motorized hood to control, we had to rely on accurate vision and odometry data more than ever before. As

Before Granite State, we checked for compliance with Rule 611 – the one that causes your Friendly Robot Inspector to ask for your voltmeter. To prove your frame is isolated from your electrical system, you turn the main breaker on and then measure the resistance from each of the power input terminals to the frame (at several

A new motorized hood requires new software, of course! There’s really a trifecta of new features we needed to take advantage of this system. I’ll do a separate post with updates from our event in the next couple of days. Part 1: Going Up and Down To do anything with the hood, we first needed

We sometimes learn the most when things go wrong. In that spirit, this post will revisit the problem that kept 6328 off the field at Granite State in Quals 21. Our analysis revealed an issue that could easily affect other teams. The Oh-No Moment As we were loading in for the match, our drive coach

After talking through the priorities for robot changes going into worlds at the meeting last night we decided there is one major upgrade to keep us competitive. It was a tough decision, but in the end we’ve come to the conclusion that now is the time to start wasting time by doing something we said

Greater Boston was a crazy weekend and quite the way to close out our final district event of the year. Thanks to our amazing alliance partners 125 and 5563 for being so great to work with and helping take home the win. Special shout out to fellow open alliance team 95 for another hard fought

Thank you to NE FIRST and team 125 Nutrons for hosting a great event last weekend at Greater Boston. It was an honor to be allied with the Nutrons and team 5563 Phalanx!Enjoy our wrap video:

Can you help me understand the axis your passive hooks rotate about? It looks to me that you have a plate that both the passive hooks and elevator are connected by and then the passive hooks rotate about a bolt going through a bushing? Or is there a shaft in the bushing and the bolt

As we take some time to relax after a successful weekend at Granite State, I’d like to share a few interesting statistics. We created our logging framework for debugging first and foremost (this was very helpful during the event), but a side-effect is that we can now produce some interesting summaries of what the robot was doing