Software Software fully upgraded their codebase to use the newly released 2020 libraries, and they set up the color sensor to accurately detect (under a wide array of lighting conditions) the blue, yellow, red, and green colors used on the control panel. In parallel, they used E’s new test board to test the recently arrived Falcon motors and successfully read data from CANCoders. They also began testing their new odometry code to follow motion profiles using the robot’s absolute position on the field (rather than relative to its starting point), and they are still working on resolving angle offset issues. Mechanical Field The field team was able to complete the Power Port and has now begun working on the human player station and the trench. Robot This year we completed our drivetrain in record time! Machining finished up the drive rails. Alongside these completed components, a laser cut belly pan from 254, and assembled swerve modules, we were able to complete the entire dr...
Kickoff Recap + Build Schedule
Thank you to all of you who made it out to kickoff yesterday -- we had a very productive day of brainstorming and it was great that we got working on some initial prototypes. Today’s small leadership meeting was a valuable way to finalize our ideas for a preliminary strategic and design plan. We will be presenting this plan at tomorrow’s build meeting around 3:45 and taking questions, suggestions, or ideas from all of you. You can check her message on the #updates channel in Slack for a summary. Now that the build season has officially begun, we will be following a regular schedule for meetings each week. Every week, we will meet from 3:00 to 8:00 on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday and 12:00 - 8:00 on Saturday. We will be serving dinner at each of these meetings, but please eat lunch beforehand on Saturdays. Make sure to turn in your build form to Dr. Nelson’s submissions box if you anticipate coming to any meetings throughout the season . If you are...