FTC 7314 Engineering Notebook 2014-11-17

Competition Season Meeting

Meeting Date	Meeting Time	Location	Attendees
Monday, November 17, 2014	6pm-9pm	TCHS Brandywine	Josh, Trevor, Braden, Laura, Brad, Nick, CJ, Akhila

Tasks	Reflections
Marketing	Brad and Trevor worked on designing and painting a scouting box and a button box using the team colors
Tapping	Amal, Braden, and Josh were helping for tapping to thread the screw. Andrew, Clem, and Mr. Weismann were also helping us on the tapping. We also tried to mount the wheels on the robot. We completed all 8 holes necessary in order to mount the motors
What Programming Did	Nick started off the meeting by testing what he currently had for the program. With Laura and Akhila, they then all began testing what signal strengths worked and didn't work for the IR autonomous. When we first started the meeting, we were having a problem with the nxt stalling after a few seconds of autonomous. We realized it was due to the fact that we were trying to read the encoders without them being plugged into the motor controller. We took the encoder code out temporarily to test the IR values, due to lack of time. We will attach the encoders next meeting.