FTC 7314 Engineering Notebook 2014-12-22

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Competition Season Meeting

Meeting Date Meeting Time Location Attendees
Monday December 22, 2014 4pm-9pm TCHS Brandywine Akhila, CJ, Trevor, Amal, Nick, Laura, Brad, Braden, Josh


Tasks Reflections
Moving Number plate
  • Josh moved the number plate to a lower position in order to make the linear slide move up and down smoother.
  • It was noticed at the competition that the linear slide was getting interfered with by the number plate, so it was decided that the plate would have to go lower.
  • Hopefully now the slide will move a lot smoother and efficiently.
Planning
  • The whole team had a team meeting about how to improve for the next qualifiers. We talked about how we could try to win the Think Award, Inspire Award, and how to actually achieve to win the competition or just have a good enough robot to qualify. We also improved for our outreach.
  • In addition to fixing the robot, there are also many things that we need to do for the notebook, outreach, and spirit.
  • Things like a CAD journey, a robot baseball card, and some more outreach events at elementary schools and libraries were discussed.
Calling the Library
  • Josh called the library in order to try to get an outreach event with them. Josh has to call at a later time because the person who could plan it was absent. He also attempted to call the Downingtown library, but they were closed.
  • The team is super excited for this possible event.
Working on Auton
  • Laura, Nick, and Akhila worked on auton, fixing the bug that caused the robot to stop while searching for the IR beacon.
  • At one point, we realized we were looking for the IR sensor in the wrong NXT port. We learned we should always double check that the wiring has not changed.
  • After many tests, we decided to start writing values out to the screen. In the process, we realized that the IR sensor was never reading a value high enough to warrant a continuation of the program.
  • After lowering the value, and testing for other positions, we decided that the IR sensor would need to be moved to the other side of the robot.
  • While working on auton, the servo for the IR arm broke, and had to be replaced.

Action and idea Journal


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