FTC 7314 Engineering Notebook 2015-10-10

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Competition Season Meeting

Meeting Date Meeting Time Location Attendees
10-October-2015 2:00-5:00 PM TCHS Brandywine Amal, Justin, Jacob, Trevor, Josh, Daniel, Trent, Braden


Objectives / Systems Hypotheses, tests, observations, conclusions, plans
snarr, trever,amal,Installed Java, Android Studio, and FTC App for Robot
Braden,Daniel,Josh,trent,and justing worked on milling and cutting parts for cadded chassie


Tasks Reflections
Milling for chassis
  • Braden helped cut the parts for the center supports of the new chassie desighn,and also milled parts for the drive train of the chassis
  • Josh completed rough cutting all pieces of the chassis. He plans to mill most of the rough cut pieces on Monday. Josh used the horizontal band saw for a majority of the cuts, while using the vertical band saw for the few plates he had to cut.
  • Daniel milled a 1-inch metal tube in half. Paul the mentor mentored Daniel on how to use the mill.
  • today mentor paul taught trent how to mill for the chasis
Installing Coding Programs
  • Amal, Snarr, and Trevor were installing the programs necessary to program the robot on Amal's laptop. The installation process for Java, Android Studio, and Android API 19 in 2 hours! Paul the mentor, helped Amal uninstall all of the useless programs on the laptop.
  • Amal did not know how to install Java, Android Studio, GitHub and the Android API 19 Package, all necessary to program our robot. Snarr showed Amal how to install the programs and how to use them.
Installing Android studio and milling
  • Justin was helping Amal with the computer program, and helping the people mill in the workshop. Justin was milling parts for the chassis.

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