Talk:DEWBOT XII Westtown
From DEW Robotics
Post-Mortem - TEAM
- What Worked
- We won
- Drive-train except 1 successful T-Bone
- Autonomous - reliable high-goal scoring after crossing outer-works
- Catapult
- Auto-align
- Getting picked by 225 - not being the odd man out
- High cycle rate (3-5 cycles in teleop)
- Drive Team
- Pit able to fix problems
- Dashboard (Camera view for driving)
- Did not get stuck in Moat
- Driving over other robots
- We always queued in time, but sometimes without full repairs being made.
- What Didn't
- Pit - sometimes pit empty - pit checklist not followed - extraneous people in pit
- Pit eating the drive team candy
- Pit not listening to drive team
- Catapult spring & stop inconsistent
- Boulder jammed in the intake
- Tread came off in one T-Bone attack
- Andrew's eyes
- Packing - did not bring magic string
- Need to bring spares
- Necessary tools removed from toolbox
- Ran into 225
- Intake came apart
- Actions
- Make new Intake(s) needed
- Old design
- Add gussets
- Maybe some weight reduction
- Fix Scouting Ap Bugs
- Formalize pit process for tuning in the catapult
- Need spare cameras
- Need spare cylinders
- scale is not accurate
- Keep balls out of the chassis x-catapult
- Fix the packing list (and follow it when packing!)
Post-Mortem - EVENT
- What Worked
- On schedule Saturday
- Ran smoothly, especially the field
- Judge food okay - even Friday (water scarce Friday)
- Field Assembly / Disassembly
- Volunteers (expect more diversity - less 1640 - next year)
- Room in pits - not conjested
- What Didn't
- Food started very bad - improved Saturday but still unacceptable - Good Sunday
- Field element staging
- Restrooms - Low capacity - not clean - not able to lock the upstairs bathroom
- Parking disorganized
- Loading/Unloading
- Very hard to hear Pit Administration
- Very hard to understand Field announcements
- No monitors showing game in pit area
- Projectors very hard to see (game / score)
- Invisibility of 1640 in event branding
- Traffic Arrows
- Inadequate signage (e.g. Safety Glasses Must Be Worn in the Pit)
- No photo location (awards)
- Blind entry from Westtown Road
- Print badges earlier and prepare volunteer packages
- Order more badges, shirts, etc.
- Not enough trash cans & cans not emptied often enough
- Communications not good enough
- Volunteers not adequately fed
- No food diversity
- Red tickets no-one knew about (Volunteer food)
- Poor and unsanitary food preparation