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* The team had been working on the promote award video for a few days and today was the deadline for posting the video. They had to film and edit the video by midnight. The team of Trevor, Snarr, Akhila, Myles, Daniel, Braden, and Matt filmed the video. Snarr took the video home and edited it before the midnight deadline.
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* We had an short all hands education session covering our autonomous programming.  This was intended as an introduction to our software structure for those students who have not yet been involved in programming this year.  We identified our reusable classes,  named “Steps”. The Steps are placed in a ordered list to create an autonomous routine.
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*Here is a simplified sample of Red Inside that we reviewed together: 
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        Step_ReCalibrateGyroIfNeeded()
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        Step_TurnLeft(40)
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        Step_Straight(4500, Direction.REVERSE)   
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        Step_FindColorLine(ColorEnum.RED)
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        Step_TurnLeft(90)
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        Step_Straight(500, Direction.REVERSE)
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        Step_TurnRight(0)
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        Step_FindColorLine(ColorEnum.WHITE)
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        Step_Straight(400, Direction.REVERSE)
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        Step_TurnLeft(90)
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        Step_Straight(400, Direction.FORWARD)
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        Step_ControlDebris(ControlDebrisEnum.PICK_UP)
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        // track white line to beacon.  Detect color and press button.
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        Step_TrackWhiteLine(ColorEnum.RED)
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        Step_UnloadClimbers()
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        // park robot away from beacon.
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        Step_Straight(400, DcMotor.Direction.FORWARD)
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        Step_TurnLeft(160)
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        Step_Straight(1800, DcMotor.Direction.REVERSE
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*After the education session Matt, Justin, and Mr Abersold worked on actual programming.  We updated our autonomous for Blue side.  Copying our recent improvements from red side. Blue side still needs to be tested
 
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*Braden, Matt, And Daniel  were testing the robot’s hanging capability to make sure everything was in the right spot. During these tests, they discovered that the hook was too high up. We also tried to figure out the right kind of hook
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*The team continued to work towards hanging capability.  They tried to work out hanging from the middle section. Unfortunately they found this to be too difficult, the tension stick formed an arc that extended outside our 18 inch box requirement.  For a workable solution, the robot needs to be a little farther up the ramp to bring the tension stick within our size requirement.
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*We programmed the hanging wench to be controlled with the operator controller. The Up Pad for lifting the robot the Down Pad for lowering the robot.
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*The team changed back to a poly hook for light weight and narrow fit for the hook release.  The down side to poly is that the poly hook is larger and therefore harder to work within the 18 inch box requirement. This is still a work in progress.
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|'''Smokin' Motors'''
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*The motor for the robot arm burned up today.  They replaced it, but it took about an hour from our planned activity of working on hanging.  The team did a great job working together to repair the robot.  
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Latest revision as of 22:58, 24 April 2016

Competition Season Meeting

Meeting Date Meeting Time Location Team Members in Attendance:
9 April 2016 6-10pm TCHS Brandywine Akhila, Josh, Trevor, Myles, Matt, Jake, Snarr, Daniel


Tasks Reflections
Programming
  • We had an short all hands education session covering our autonomous programming. This was intended as an introduction to our software structure for those students who have not yet been involved in programming this year. We identified our reusable classes, named “Steps”. The Steps are placed in a ordered list to create an autonomous routine.
  • Here is a simplified sample of Red Inside that we reviewed together: 
        Step_ReCalibrateGyroIfNeeded()
        Step_TurnLeft(40)
        Step_Straight(4500, Direction.REVERSE)     
        Step_FindColorLine(ColorEnum.RED)

        Step_TurnLeft(90)
        Step_Straight(500, Direction.REVERSE)
        Step_TurnRight(0)
        Step_FindColorLine(ColorEnum.WHITE)
        Step_Straight(400, Direction.REVERSE)
        Step_TurnLeft(90)
        Step_Straight(400, Direction.FORWARD)
        Step_ControlDebris(ControlDebrisEnum.PICK_UP)
        
        // track white line to beacon.  Detect color and press button. 
        Step_TrackWhiteLine(ColorEnum.RED)
        Step_UnloadClimbers()

        // park robot away from beacon.
        Step_Straight(400, DcMotor.Direction.FORWARD)
        Step_TurnLeft(160)
        Step_Straight(1800, DcMotor.Direction.REVERSE
  • After the education session Matt, Justin, and Mr Abersold worked on actual programming. We updated our autonomous for Blue side. Copying our recent improvements from red side. Blue side still needs to be tested
Hanging
  • The team continued to work towards hanging capability. They tried to work out hanging from the middle section. Unfortunately they found this to be too difficult, the tension stick formed an arc that extended outside our 18 inch box requirement. For a workable solution, the robot needs to be a little farther up the ramp to bring the tension stick within our size requirement.
  • The team changed back to a poly hook for light weight and narrow fit for the hook release. The down side to poly is that the poly hook is larger and therefore harder to work within the 18 inch box requirement. This is still a work in progress.
Smokin' Motors
  • The motor for the robot arm burned up today. They replaced it, but it took about an hour from our planned activity of working on hanging. The team did a great job working together to repair the robot.
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