STEAMworks Meeting - 28-Jan-2017
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CAD & Design
Drawings for all of the chassis pieces were made, the electronics panel was modified. Again. All of the electronics components were added to test for size, it's looking like we will just barely have enough room for everything. - Madi Wyatt
Mechanical
The gear team finished our gear mechanism prototype and handed it off to CAD. - Sam C
Programming
Began testing and tuning on completed shooter design.
Explored ways to calculate distance using the vertical center of the target. Came up with this equation: Distance = (TARGET_HEIGHT-CAMERA_HEIGHT)/tan(CAMERA_ANGLE - FOV/2 + FOV*centerY/VERTICAL_RESOLUTION)
Collected vision outputs at various distances and found a curve that fits the above equation very closely. -Matt L.
Strategy
Scouting (past week): We had a video call with 2834 about scouting and tableau. We discussed the difficulties each of our teams were finding with scouting and discussed possible solutions. The need of scouts for Westtown was announced, along with a mention of the roles that would be added in the coming season.
Scouting App (past week): All we have left for the app is low goal scoring, field position, and fouls. Bluetooth is mostly implemented and now just needs to be tested. We still have to work on sending the data to Google sheets/server. Blue alliance integration is finished and just needs to be tested.
