STEAMworks Meeting - 11-Jan-2017

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PHOTOS

CAD & Design

CAM Team Leader: Patrick Yesterday the new CNC router completed its first part for the team. An Omni Wheel Hub from the FTC team was cut from polycarbonate. This part is meant to be implemented in a wheeled shooter on the robot to launch fuel into the boiler.

Today I uploaded two almost identical versions of the current chassis design. The First assembly titled 'Chassis ASM,' features a 1x1 C-channel extrusion. The Second titled 'Chassis ASM with GlobalVariables' includes 2x1 C-channel extrusion and uses the Equations feature in the Solidworks software (referred to as Global Variables or GV in the Solidworks files). The Second assembly will probably be the preferred file to use, so the name may have to be changed to indicate which is being used.

Mechanical

Programming

We ported all code that will be needed in this year's robot from last year's Java project. We introduced new programmers to the structure of our autonomous and drive code. We also compiled more of the data from the vision testing into an spreadsheet. -Matt Lebermann

-We also continued work on OpenCV on the raspberry pis. ~Laura Dodds

Strategy

Field Elements

Communications

Attendees: Sai, Madi, Meghana, Magdalena, Sully, Trevor

Agenda:

  • Set deadline for newsletter completion - Captains - newsletter entries must be done within a week of the event
  • Finish and send ISPE letter
  • Assign tasks for build season
  • Assign further grant and sponsorship writing projects
  • Organize and set deadline for recruitment video - after build season, includes building footage
  • Establish schedule for updating engineering notebook on wiki and go over formatting - can put in photos from big events
  • Reminder - Sub-team lead weekly scrums will be Saturdays, just after lunch
  • Discuss Andy’s cold-calling proposal
  • Discuss wiki access

Notes:

  • Objective of the Newsletter:
Make it a monthly thing to send out to parents, students, sponsors, Congressmen, etc. - send out at the end of each month (30th or 31st… or 28th thanks February)
Let’s keep everyone in the loop!
First newsletter of 2017 has wrap up from 2016 and kickoff included
  • Created deadlines for all build season tasks
  • We will start to hyperlink our notes!
  • We will get 1640 email password from Clem tonight, send out email to ISPE ASAP!

Action Items (Moving Forward):

  • Build season tasks

Other

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