FTC 7314 Engineering Notebook 2014-11-15

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Competition Season Meeting

Meeting Date Meeting Time Location Attendees
Saturday November 15, 2014 12pm-5:00pm TCHS Brandywine CJ, Josh, Amal, Akila, Justin,Wade, Trevor, Laura


Tasks Reflections
Driving Practice
  • CJ, Amal, Josh and our newest member Wade who joined today practiced a number of ways to approach the kick stand in the middle of the field and bringing the goals on top of the ramp effectivly. Because we used the prototype the device on the robot that would grab the goal was not on and possessing the goal became very challenging. Many times we drove over it which in a competition result in a penalty.
  • Akhila also learned the drive controls for the first time.
  • Today, Wade, a visitor and possible team member came to observe the team and a get a feel for how we work on things and what we're working on. He ended up being a big part of driver practice and doing quite well!
Make Shooter Parts
  • Amal, Josh, Wade, and Justin were working on the mill working with 5 parts. It took about 2 hours to finish but they were happy they got the job done.
Remakeing linier slide
  • Justin, Josh, and Andrew remade the liner slide to reduce weight so the meeting on saterday and many meeting emceeing them became worthless but it now it woke better.
  • Josh, Justin and Amal drilled holes into the 80-20 to make room for a screwdriver to be able to make it anemically easier to screw in the slider pieces.
Engineering Notebook and Scouting
  • As the first competition is approaching, many things need to get accomplished. In addition to the robot, the engineering notebook and scouting sheets are also important tasks. Akhila worked on editing the engineering notebook pages and converting them into PDF files. She got about halfway through before pausing to work on something else.
  • She also made a scouting spreadsheet that encompassed all the opposing teams, their team numbers, websites, autonomous strategy, teleop strategy, and if team 7314 had seen them before.
Work on Autonomous
  • Nick worked on changing the autonomous so that it would be more robust and work accordingly to the field. He then made a ir beacon holder to attach to the field center piece. After this he continued fixing the autonomous to test it on the field. However another student put the robot away while Nick was retrieving a USB cable. Therefore, autonomous testing did not happen during the meeting.


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