Author: Fletcher

Attendance

• Evan
• Hunter

Journal

Tasks

• Create more tension in the chain
• Correct Serial Issues
• Change tension in the rubber pieces for the fork

Reflections

Evan messed messed with the chain to add more tension to it so it won’t come off the gear. He messed with the wiring by putting different cables in the correct ports. He also put the motor controllers in the right serial pattern. He determined that before competitions, we are to check chain tension, wiring, and bolt tightness. We got new steel pieces for the fork lift. We changed the tension in the rubber pieces on the fork, which will make the scissor lift have an easier time going up for the fist inch of travel.

Attendance

• Evan
• Fletcher

Journal

Tasks

• Work on the claw
• Help the other team

Reflections

Today was a Saturday build day at Evan’s house. We decided that all of the robot’s software files would be stored on Google drive so that one computer won’t have a more recent TeleOp or Autonomous than the rest of the computers.

Evan attached the claw on the robot. He also worked on machining a pulley mechanism so as to make it so our hand can move left and right.

Fletcher helped Amanda from The Kings and Queens (Team 4153) write an autonomous and a TeleOp. He for the most part wrote their TeleOp so as to demonstrate using the RobotC language. He then handed the computer to Amanda and guided her through writing an autonomous. This enabled her to finish her autonomous. They claimed that our team was both gracious and professional for doing this.

Attendance

• Hunter
• Fletcher
• Mark
• Dante
• Chris
• Erik

Journal

Tasks

• Bring the robot back to school
• Program for a new TeleOp to fit the motors
• Build or plan for a scoop
• Improve torque on scissor lift

Reflections

Evan has been ill this week, and the robot has been at his house since last Thursday (hence no meeting Tuesday), so Mark had to go to his house before school and grab the robot and the parts.

During the meeting, Hunter made a new TeleOp, TeleOpHR that used all of the current motors we have on the robot, such as the Scissor motors, the hand motors, the hand servo, the drive motors, and the scoop motor.

Mark built a scoop to move rings from the floor to the base plate on the field.

Attendance

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

Journal

Tasks

• Make a question sheet for scouting
• Design claw
• Install robot C

Reflections

We re-installed RobotC on the new computer and put on a permanent license.  We also gave the field computer a RobotC permanent license as well.  We also re-designed the claw and the way the claw mounts to the robot.

We discussed how we will scout at competitions.  Here are some questions that we came up with to ask:

1. Would you say your steering skills are precise?
2. Do you plan to lift another robot in the end game?
3. What does your autonomous do?
4. How heavy is your robot?
5. Do you have sufficient wheelbase?
6. Does your robot lift rings?