Month: September 2012

Attendance

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• Fletcher
• Dante
• Chris
• Hunter
• Evan
• Mark
• Ares

Journal

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Tasks

• Design bits for the robot
• Discuss End Game
• Discuss the season

Reflections

We met with our adviser Mr. Corey Porter to decide on how the season will go. We assigned different members of the team to different awards, like this:

• Think Award – Hunter
• Connect Award – Fletcher
• Rockwell Collins Innovate Award – Evan
• PTC Design Award – Chris
• Motivate Award – Mark
• Inspire Award – Everyone

By getting these awards, we intend on being the best team, not just on the field, but also the best team at getting awards.

We started new arm design, new chassis, and discovered that the old TeleOp works. We had an interesting discussion on how we intend to lift the other robot in the endgame.  We began to discuss the design of the robot and we want to try to get the rings as well as attempt to lift another robot.  We got a new green bin of parts.

Attendance

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• Fletcher
• Erik
• Dante
• Chris
• Hunter
• Evan
• Mark
• Ares

Journal

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Tasks

• Have the kick-off
• Take apart the robot
• Get ready for the new season

Reflections

We hosted the kickoff event today in which we invited many other schools to come and to show them the kickoff video to introduce the new field and set of rules.  Our parents and mentors set up the new robotics field right outside the room where we showed the video, and all of the teams that came were given a set of rules and served pizza while they, including us, got some time to plan the designs of the robot for the season.

We brainstormed major ideas for the beginning of our upcoming season as a robotics team.  We began taking apart the previously robot, updated RobotC and got new firmware on the NXT.  Because we updated RobotC, the program didn’t know that we used Tetrix parts (we were ignorant of this), so upon compiling the old code from last year, we got a mess of errors.  Farr, from team 4153 Dark Matter pointed out to us that we have to set RobotC for “NXT + Tetrix/Matrix” before we compile our code.  Once we did this, all was well. Hunter and Fletcher decided that we need a new computer and discussed how we might get the money for one.  After everyone left, our workstation was a mess, therefore we must clean up better before we leave.

Attendance

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• Fletcher
• Erik
• Dante
• Chris
• Hunter
• Evan
• Mark
• Ares

Journal

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Tasks

• Introduce Mark, Hunter, and Evan to the rookies
• Read the rules
• Discuss the season

Reflections

Mark, Hunter, and Evan met the new rookies and discussed with them their various skills and what they like to do.  We continued to sort the contents of the boxes more and we read over the rules of FTC in general and discussed and elaborated upon what Fletcher explained to the rookies previously.  Everyone was present which allowed us all to get together with Mr. Porter and discuss in general how the robotics season works to the new members and to talk about what our initial goals for the year are.

Attendance

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• Fletcher
• Erik
• Dante
• Chris
• Ares

Journal

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Tasks

• Meet new team members
• Take inventory of parts

Reflections

Everyone went to a meeting in Mr. Dobson’s room and we were all introduced to robotics, although it was mostly just the new members.  After we had our teams assigned, All of the vets present on our team greeted the new members to our team which consisted of Dante, Chris, and Ares.  These new members now make our team have 8 people.  The returning vets consisted of Mark, Evan, Hunter, Fletcher, and Erik.  We showed the new members our work space and what kinds of parts we have to use to build the robot, we didn’t assign specific jobs yet at all because we don’t know what the competition will be this year yet.  We took inventory, showed around the new team members, took note of missing materials, and planned to order new ones.  We also began to reorganize resource and other various boxes.