Practice June 29, 2024
Continued to create new autonomous test mode. Previous autonomous drive code was overwritten and must be recreated.
Practice – July 27
Gavin worked on coding distance driving for Autonomous. Eric worked on the extension mechanism for our experimental lifter arm. Preston researched newer components as well[…]
June 24, 2024-Practice
Eric and Jordan built practice obstacle course to help train autonomous drive. Documented course on graph paper to recreate Layout of practice autonomous course Gavin[…]
Practice – June 17
💡 Preston finished “coding” the MiniBot (Stephen did most of the work). 💡 Gavin, Michael, and Eric found a bad wire on the robot.
Practice – July 15, 2024
Limited practice with just Jordan. Worked on upgrading the claw arm from a string and pully to a chain mechanism.
Practice – June 10
Gavin and Michael attended practice tonight. Laptops were being used by the Lego team, so limited programming available. Troubleshooting issues with receiving encoder values on[…]
Helping Clean at Local Church
WACO Aerobatics team helped out at a local church today to clean parts of the building.
Project Management
Moved project management from Jira into Notion as a separate page called “Project Management” Atlassian was asking for $15k per year for us to use[…]
New Sponsorship Submitted
A new sponsorship request was submitted to Radiance Technologies in Beavercreek, OH. The information submitted included: WACO Aerobotics Team 5140 comprises 8 – 10 high[…]
Practice – June 1st
Gavin and Michael worked on coding the arm and making it run at ludicrous speeds. Preston, Nick, and Eric got a crash course on coding[…]
Practice 5/25/2024
💡 Gavin worked on the coding the camera for the robot 💡 Jordan and Nick worked (unsuccessfully) on installing a latch for the hinging components[…]
April 6th
Programmer and Build Teams hard at work! Programmers logged into the new robot and successfully created a working teleOP mode. Using drone controls to more[…]
April 29 Practice
Confirmed that encoder wires and motors are still functioning properly. Added a flip-up platform above the Command and Control modules and wiring to easily reach[…]
March 30th (practice)
Programmers We Began setting up and define a way for our robot to automatically calculate the conversation between degrees and CPR (Counts Per Rotation). This[…]
March 18th practice
Programmers Michael and Gavin working out a Java problem Fought Honorable against a strange bug preventing any motor from turning. Ends up we misnamed a[…]
March 16th Practice
Programmers Perfected encoders and tweaked functions to make the distances more precise and easy to change. We also added a break so the program ends[…]