Team Journal

During our scrimmage this weekend we went through lots of changes in the robots for many good and bad reasons. To start, our ramp was buckling sometimes and was flimsy which led us to not intake the artifacts well. We did add support to the sides and that failed but then we added some sort of walls on each side and a small bar to the bottom of the ramp to fix how flimsy it was. We also had good things that happen though the day, like how we were able to shoot from more than one places into the goals and how other than the ramps and dead zones. Today we're worked on fixing our intake dead zones and finishing up the ramp.

During our scrimmage on Saturday there was a lot of excitement. Our robot had more success in picking up artifacts. On the field, we observed our robot had a few dead spots where the artifacts got caught. We also noted that our robot was shooting too fast, causing our robots shooting accuracy to decrease. Also, during a match, our battery was low and we couldn't shoot any artifacts. As the game came to an end, we had a lot of info from the other teams on their shooting ideas, which we took into great consideration.

We redesigned our intake from vertical to horizontal. We mounted our control and expansion hubs on a new part of our robot, Muffin. Then we fixed the intake ramp by shifting it down and foreword. We then moved our back frame closer to the outtake ramp. We rewired Muffin for the third time and now we are ready to drive and are capable of doing tasks but not lifting. How we will prepare for our scrimmage by getting a good night sleep, eating good, healthy breakfast, and everyone having experience driving.

This week we were prepping for a scrimmage that we're hosting at our school. Earlier in the week we put the battery on with the motor on the linear actuator. This week we had to finish our robot for the scrimmage so we fixed our two front drive wheels and finished wiring for our motors (Including linear actuator) and control and expansion hub. We also put on our battery and an on and off switch. Its name is croissant because our other team named their robot muffin so we went off their idea and named it a pastry. We started coding and testing our robot before driving and got assigned our permanent teams. To prepare for our scrimmage, now we're about to get drive practice.

This week we have adjusted our out-take by mounting the bar that holds it towards the front by a big hole. We also mounted our control and expansion hubs. After that we found a place for our other places to put our servo hub for our intake. We then plug all our wires into the hubs. Then we programmed the robot with base code. We then were able to get drive practice so we know how the controls work. During drive practice, We found a mistake with our intake ramp that made it so we couldn't pick up artifacts, so we had to zip-tie the ramp on the front of the robot.