Posts about practice

Date: 6/9/2025 6:00pm – 9:00pm Attendance: Gavin Bodey, Preston Duff, Eric Vallery, Jordan, Kyle, Nick, Coach Bodey, and Coach Dave Plan: Get the T-shirt canon[…]

Began final assembly of main collection tank and canon barrels. Collection tank parts cut, dry fit and glued.

Assembled T-Shirt Canon Mark III and test fired. Repeated firing was successful as well as firing tests using remote control trigger. Designed pre-load system for[…]

We showed of the t-shirt cannon at a school STEM convention in the Air Force Museum. Here is the take away Today We switched the[…]

Debrief: Cons: Pros:

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

  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[…]

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[…]

Nick and Carter moved the motors to the new robot chassis.

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[…]

Programers Updated code. Don’t forget to include the gearbox multiplyer. Builders Fixed chain drive on arm.

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[…]

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[…]

Now with a flip top head Robot base drive test

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]