What's the point of building a robot that we're unable to program? Today, students were taught how to work with LabVIEW and were even taught the basics of coding using JavaScript! Thank you to our sponsor National Instruments for providing LabView to FRC teams!
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As week two begins, the team realizes that we need a lot more storage space! Today, we built shelving for organization purposes and reorganized our newer machines, as well as teaching members how to use them! See you tomorrow, Robo Squad!
After a productive week at the Elm City Robo Squad 558 workshop, all that was left to do for the week was finish building field components! See you on Saturday team!
Today, we discussed specifications to our prototypes including changing wheel type from skyway to pneumatic wheels and measuring wheel diameter for all new pneumatic wheels. We also discussed any alternatives to our original prototype and priority list. Our catapult shooter was redesigned as it broke; our flywheel shooter design was improved. We checked inventory on new items that arrived. Today, students were taught an overview of CAD. We also completed a prototype of our intake, although slight design modifications are in the process. Students were also taught about program loops and conditional statements. The tower was finished, and we were finally able to set up our mill! The flywheel shooter is back! This time, after modifying the design and testing at 10K RPM, we were able to shoot the ball into the high tower! Success! Due to the influx of new members joining the team constantly, we have decided to start the day by getting our veteran members to teach the newbies how to use all the tools! Soon, even our newer members were explaining the safety and procedures of using machines to their friends! Members who were interested were even taught how to code for the very first time! We continued to build field components such as the rough terrain and moat. We even were able to test a drive train prototype and successfully go over the obstacles! One of our "Top 5 Tasks" as decided at kickoff would be to control the ball. To do this effectively, we would need a versatile intake! Begin prototyping! Coming back to school, following an eventful kick-off weekend, Elm City Robo Squad 558 got to work ASAP assembling field components! After long conversations, the team had come to a conclusion that an effective shooter was one of the crucial components of a successful robot, we began to prototype a flywheel shooter. We tested the shooter design at 5K RPM, leading to a slightly less than successful outcome. Time for modifications! Welcome to the FRC 2016 Season, and this years game STRONGHOLD! The team traveled up to the local kickoff in Wolcott, Connecticut with other teams to bring in the new year. We were joined by our Comcast NBCUniversal mentor Brendan Clifford at Kickoff on Saturday. Thank you Comcast NBCUniversal and Brendan for supporting the team. Also, thank you Comcast NBCUniversal for sponsoring FIRST Robotics Competition Kickoff broadcast. The team is now heavily into discussions and starting to prototype for this year's robot. It's going to be a challenge but we think this years game really fits the team's style! |
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