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 […]
Pre Granite State Climber Update Read More »
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
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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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We mentioned some of the changes we’ve been working on with our shooter, and we’d like to give an update. To recap, we identified an issue with the three positions of our pneumatic hood. Between wall (the lowest position) and line (the middle position), we had a dead zone where making shots was nearly impossible.
Software and the Hood Read More »
To accommodate for the different gameplay this year, we decided to modify our middle shooter hood position. Our shooter hood has three positions: the outer and inner positions are actuated using a piston, and the middle position is a catch with two sheet metal hooks and a pair of solenoids. First, we used the existing
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Background For a while, we had a single set of operator controls. In our rookie year we built a driver station on which was mounted two Logitech joysticks for the driver plus an operator button-board with a couple of E-Stop Robotics CCI interface boards for subsystem controls. (It also had an Arduino to drive status
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In going through the process of switching to Onshape here on 6328 we realized there are tons of great resources out there, but it can be hard to easily find them when needed. In addition the initial setup process of getting all the parts libraries and featurescrips added could be confusing. When creating the documentation
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