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One area we haven’t really talked much about is electrical. So, I thought it might be time for a post about things that have worked well and not so well for 6328. Your team may make different choices – but maybe you’ll get an idea or two! Focus on Quality Wiring The quality of the […]

On Mechanical Advantage 6328, we’re always looking to improve, whether it be our robots, capabilities, processes or our members. As you know, managing a team of 40 can be difficult. For the 2021 season, these challenges have been compounded due to COVID and the need to be socially distant. As a result, the team identified

The previous few posts have included some information about what the 6328 software team has been working on, but we thought it would be worth going into a little more detail about our adventures with motion profiling. Our motion profiling system is built using the standard functionality built into WPILib. We wrote a custom command which wraps

I know I know, the title is cliché but it’s been a hectic third week of build/work season and I’m running out of ideas ALREADY. I probably just need some sleep, but oH WeLL. In the shop, unfortunately, there is still only 25% building capacity following COVID precautions so there can only be about four people

Just wanted to hop in to talk a little bit about how we’re structuring team management this year. With all of us being virtual(and me being 3000 miles away), it’s been quite a challenge to keep the team engaged and moving in the right direction. I’m extremely happy with some of the progress we’ve made

HQ Update: We have still been moving at a slow yet steady pace for our progress and can only do so much with Governer Baker (MA) deciding to remain at 25% building capacity for mandates Game Design: 1/20/2021 – The Game Design Challenge team started with a discussion about potential implementations for our game piece,

And we’re back, its been a little bit so here are some updates that we have about our projects after kickoff, which was last Saturday. During kickoff, we had a really nice zoom meeting with many members of the team along with some members from rookie team 8604; we played some games too such as

Alright, long time no see, we’re back! Happy to say, thanks to Zoom, Slack, and Onshape… 2021, wow, who would have thought. Look at us now. Happy to say 6328 is going to be continuing this blog sharing with everyone the updates, progress, setbacks, and lessons we experience throughout the 2021 season! It’ll look a