FTC 7314 Engineering Notebook 2015-01-11

Competition Season Meeting

Meeting Date	Meeting Time	Location	Attendees
		TCHS Brandywine

Tasks	Reflections
Replacing the Bapper Motor	Bullet point for each reflection
Writing the software clutch	Recently, there has been a hardware clutch on the bapper motor to prevent smoking it. However, it was made of aluminum and would wear very easily. Instead of replacing the clutch every time it wore down, Laura decided to try to write a software clutch. By seeing if the encoder counts have changed recently, we can determine if the bapper is currently stuck on a ball, or if it is still moving. If it is stuck the code will move it backwards until it is un-stuck. The clutch works very well and Laura is happy we will not burn out any motors or have to switch the clutch anymore.

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