Hey team — both students and mentors!
We have a ton to do before Silicon Valley Regional, starting next Thursday, March 18. We have a good robot, but some parts still require tuning and we can always improve our performance. We also really need to practice driving, and to do that we have to reassemble the practice robot!
If you’d like to help out please put your name down on the following spreadsheet and select the dates that you’d be available. (We won’t ask you to come on every day that you check–we just need to coordinate people’s schedules.)
Tasks that need to be done:
- Putting on wheels
- Experiment with roller for better ball control
- Install the roller on the practice robot.
- We’re thinking of switching out the roller for a foam noodle
- Need to calculate the correct speeds for the roller based on the robot’s motion.
- Get room 608 for practice
- Machine parts and assembling a new lift using updated design
- Install the kicker on the practice robot.
- Experimenting with kicker damping to protect from “dry firing”
- Test autonomous mode
- Install proximity sensor to detect the ball, or design a new ball detection sensor.
It’s a lot of work for a week and a half, but if we concentrate our efforts on working efficiently, I really think we can do this. This means that each day at the garage, we should go in with a plan to accomplish one of these tasks, and finish the night at a reasonable hour.
Let’s go win SVR!
