FTC 7314 Engineering Notebook 2015-12-28

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Competition Season Meeting

Meeting Date Meeting Time Location Attendees
TCHS Brandywine


  • Bullet point for each hypothesis, test, observation, conclusion, plan
Objectives / Systems Hypotheses, tests, observations, conclusions, plans
Completed tasks
  • Bennett and Matt built the 18 x 18 inch sizing cube first. We found the rights nuts and bolts and completed the sizing cube.
  • Daniel put a hub on the other side of the beacon button pressing device. he made a prototype for the pull-up bar arm. he did this by making a piece of plastic with a hook on the end that will, when released, will fling up and grab the bar and then winch up.
Robot improvement
  • Trevor and Josh worked on making the rescue arm work properly as well as fixing the robot.
  • Josh worked to replace the servo operating the climber arm to a weaker one in order to slow down the rate of the arm through and hopefully make the climber scoring more reliable. He also worked to make sure the servos for the climbers on the hill were in proper resting positions.


Tasks Reflections
Task in bold
  • Bullet point for each reflection
Workshop cleaning and programing
  • At the beginning of the meeting Justin cleaned the workshop; mainly the table which had about a robots worth of parts on it. Latter Justin did some programing for the pieces that deploy the zip lines.


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