Practice – February 3rd
We fixed the horizontal arm mechanism, which was slipping. After that, we drove the robot around and troubleshot issues with the hand servo. Kyle and[…]
Drivers Practice 1/30
Attendence: Preston, Gavin, Nicholas, Marcus Duff Finished attaching supported DC motors for horizontal arm. Found out that the slider in the arm came loose so[…]
Jan 13, 2025 – Sponsor Demo and Practice
Demonstrated robot to WACO Board of Directors and Collins Aerospace. Went over FTC game rules, how the robot was built and answered general questions about[…]
12/14/2024 Practice
Carter put the sign on the robot. Gavin finished putting together the vertical arm, while Nick and Eric reconstructed the new hand and did some[…]
Dec 7, 2024 – Practice
Gavin, Preston, Michael and Jordan attached the vertical arm to the base drive. Carter began working on mini-bot to learn system. There will NOT[…]
11/25/2024 Practice
Gavin continued to assemble smaller vertical arm. Michael fixed servos and code for brush and horizontal lift. Eric, Nick, Carter and Kyle organized the room[…]
Aug 31 Practice
Coders got a linear acceleration and deceleration algorithm working for the robot to prevent the sudden starts (jumping) and stops. Gavin worked on a parabolic[…]
8/12/24 Practice
Programers Updated code. Don’t forget to include the gearbox multiplyer. Builders Fixed chain drive on arm.
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 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[…]
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[…]