FTC 7314 Engineering Notebook 2015-10-03

Competition Season Meeting

Meeting Date	Meeting Time	Location	Attendees
3-October-2015	2:00-5:00 PM	TCHS Brandywine	Braden, Joshua, Amal

Objectives / Systems	Hypotheses, tests, observations, conclusions, plans
Debris Pick-up	Amal, Braden, Josh, and our mentor Paul were attempting to pick up the debris (mostly the cube debris) The ball debris worked very well. The gang worked on creating a prototype intake so we could attempt to possibly hope to create a final model. During the prototyping we first found out that a simple conveyor with treads and tabs would not work as it could not lift the debris off the ground independently. we then added a spinning surgical tubing intake intake so we could force the balls and squares into the tank conveyor. Braden learned that the ramp has to be at a lower angle to work with the system that brings up the obstacles to the top of the robot
Drive-train development	While participating in the "Program it!" Penn FTC workshop at Penn State Great Valley, mentors Andrew Goddard and George Abersold are introduced to the Lynx Motion tread system; a more robust tread system than the Tetrix treads (which have a reputation of coming apart). The team purchased some Lynx Motion parts to work with.

Tasks	Reflections
Task in bold	Bullet point for each reflection
Task in bold	Bullet point for each reflection

Action and idea Journal

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  Team at "Program it!" workshop

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  Assembling a debris collector prototype

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  Prototype drive side

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