STEAMworks Meeting - 14-Jan-2017

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PHOTOS

CAD & Design

The design mechanical asked us to CAD: Engineering notebook entry 1-14-17.jpg Our version: 200px


Began design of turret, research done on turret designs. We also decided to mount the shooter on the top of the robot.

-Sullivan Stuehrmann Cad Lead

CAM Lead: Patrick

The Shooter prototype was cut on the router table in addition to more wheel hubs for the fuel intake.

Mechanical

Mr. Park taught a soldering workshop and trained five of our students in the basics of soldering and electronics. - Madi Wyatt

Programming

We talked about stuff. -Matt Lebermann


-We wrote a new class to hold the auton scripts better than last year. It will need to be tested later.

-We added github integration into slack to allow members to be updated about new commits.

-We made good progress on the raspberry pi. Both NTCore and OpenCV are working. Now they need to be integrated together.

~Laura Dodds

Strategy

Scouting (past week): We determined the majority of the questions we want to ask in our scouting app. We still need to decide on how we track fuel scoring (both high and low), and whether we want to track position in auton.

Scouting App (past week): We decided to reskin ScoutMobile 2016 instead of continuing with Espionage. We wrote functions that allow us to write java instead of xml. Also started building auton.

Field Elements

Communications

Attendees: Magdalena, Meghana, Trevor, Sully, Madi, Akhila - briefly

Agenda:

  • Full Team meeting at 3:30pm
  • Completion of newsletter with final formatting
  • Assign two students to speak with SWE re: sponsorship opportunities
  • Work on sponsorship packet
  • Edit content for new website
  • NB: New site should contain section for newsletter

Notes:

  • Full Team Meeting Notes
  • Discussed point CAD has reached
  • Strategy - Discussed potential limits to gear cycling, probably will use at Westown, more questionable in terms of use at Worlds, going with short volume for robot
  • Next week beginning to finish prototyping and buying materials for robot
  • Engineering notebook will be on wiki
  • all subteam leads in charge of updating it regularly
  • will have fairly regular subteam lead scrums
  • Notebook must be up to date by Saturday of each week
  • talk to Clem if need wiki account
  • Get last few students on Slack
  • Send out email about how to set up Slack and remind to set up if haven’t yet
  • Reminder to help clean up every week from lunch with captain whose turn it is
  • Newsletter is coming out soon and will be placed on new website
  • Rules for tryouts for drive team and human players
  • Attendance, quiz on rules, audition will determine whether can be human player or drive team
  • Soldering class will be on Sunday, January 15 at 3pm with Andy for anyone who wants to learn
  • Newsletter for Jan 2017 completed.
  • Original is on Pat Cunningham’s computer as a Microsoft Publisher piece,
  • PDF is in Newsletter folder in shared Communications folder on Google Drive
  • Newsletter will be distributed during the last week of every month

Action Items (Moving forward):

  • Remember to distribute newsletter during last week of January
  • Set up meeting with SWE rep in Philly area with Madi and Meghana
  • Continue work on sponsorship packet
  • NB: new website should include space for newsletter
  • Discuss local media distribution for newsletter
  • Schools students are part of, other FRC teams, sponsors, Daily Local, etc.

Other

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