FTC 7314 Engineering Notebook 2015-09-26

Competition Season Meeting

Meeting Date	Meeting Time	Location	Attendees
26-September-2015	2:00 - 4:00PM	TCHS Brandywine	Akhila, Justin, Amal, Bennett, Wade, Daniel, Trent, Jacob, Myles

Objectives / Systems	Hypotheses, tests, observations, conclusions, plans
Debris Measurements	Cube: 2" high; 1.975" wide/deep; Mass: 50g Ball: 2.84" diameter; Mass: 30g
Programmers Troubleshoot	Akhila, Jacob, and Justin worked on installing the required SDK's to begin programming.
Intake manufacturing	Trevor, and other people that helped with the intake, worked together to begin manufacturing the prototype intake. Amal was working with Mr. Goddard and was riveting pieces to put on the Tank Drive.

Tasks	Reflections
Debris lift	Bennet worked to prototype for the debris lifter in order to be able to test out its usefulness. It includes the tank treads with the plastic strips in in order to hold the debris.
Drive Train	Daniel worked with Myles in order to brainstorm locations to place the motors that would allow the treads to wrap around. They found several places along the base of the robot and plan to find the proper tread lengths.

Action and idea Journal

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  Drive-train concept 1 - plan view

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  Drive-train concept 1 - side elevation

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  Drive-train concept 2 - side elevation

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  Drive-train concept 3 - side elevation

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  Debris collector revised concept

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  Daniel modifies the traction system to test drive-train concept 2

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  In the workshop...

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  ...building a Debris Collection...

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  ...prototype

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  Cube debris

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  Ball debris

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  George Abersold and Gary Deaver look at the Modern Robotics color sensor

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