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13
Jan 12

Kickoff!

Rebound Rumble, a game where robots try to score balls into basketball baskets and balance on a bridge.

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12
Jan 12

Day 6 – Setup in 612 (1.12.12)

Today, we did not have a formal meeting, but we did work in room 612. We did not do work on the robot. Instead, we continued setting up the CNC and organized the room for build season. The CNC sure does take a lot of time to set up. Hopefully, it will come in handy this year. If not, we will be using it for many years to come.

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11
Jan 12

Day 5 – Work and Hamburgers (1.11.12)

Today, we did more work in Room 612. We tested a previous shooter, mounted the CNC, assembled the barrier, fixed up the 2010 robot to run tests on the barrier, and mounted the de-burring wheel. We also had our second design meeting later at night.

Shooter: One team took the 2009 robot to test its shooter’s accuracy and power. We also laid it on its back for a vertical test. The ball ended up flying just 38 inches in the air. The distance from the max robot height to the highest rim just happens to be 38 inches as well. If we decide on going for that top hoop, we will need to add some extra power. (Workers: Miles, Michael L, Pradeep, Annie, Eric)

CNC: A second group continued to work on the CNC. Yesterday, we managed to get the machine into the room. Today, we mounted it onto its base. Of course, we used a small crane. Just imagine having a group of students and mentors trying to to lift a 1300 pound device that costs thousands of dollars… (Workers: Michael L, Anurag, Mr. Peake, Mr. G, Mr. Haas, Mrs. Haas, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Lowd)

Barrier: With help from Mr. and Mrs. Haas, some of our students completed the task of making the barrier. Brian, one of our software guys, took our 2010 robot (yes, we reuse our past robots quite a bit) and fixed up the code so we would be able to run tests later. (Workers: Miles, Annie, Pradeep, Mr. Haas, Mrs. Haas, Brian)

De-burring Wheel: Akshat took our de-burring wheel and mounted it on a new black stand. Now, whenever we go to de-burr something, we will be able to admire the shiny new stand.

At night, we had our second Design Meeting. There wasn’t much time between 612 work and the meeting, so some people did not even have the opportunity to go home. Others ran home, grabbed dinner, and headed right back. (I watched Miles as he ate his hamburger. It looked pretty good.) The meeting started off with Ms. Zhang giving a presentation about project management. This focused on how to stay on schedule and finish with a working robot.

Mr. Xie then continued his presentation from Monday. We went over some ideas and design concepts. Originally, we were going to split up into different groups, but we ran out of time. Hopefully, we will be able to do so on Friday!

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10
Jan 12

Meeting Minutes – January 10, 2012

Start: 8:06pm

Members: Joshua, Angela, Raphael, Eva, Anne, Mishan, Abhriam, Abhishek, Nikunj, Jackie, Maitryee, Reo, Daniel, Ishaan, Tony, Sahil, Ari, David, Akshay, Minoj
Mentors: Mr. Xie, Mr. G,
Officers: Brian, Robert Alric, Annie, Michael L, Diane, Jocelyn, Lucy, Miles, Eric, Vincent,

Member Meeting – Jan 10, 2012

Lynbrook Robotics FIRST Team#846

Start Time: 8:00 PM This Agenda is closed to editing at 6:30pm.

Only 49 days till Stop Build Day
  1. Download the Encrypted Manual!
    1. http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/competition-manual-and-related-documents?id=452
    2. svn checkout http://frc2012-gamedocs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ frc2012-gamedocs-read-only
      SVN version maintained by D.Giandomenico (trial effort)

Officer Reports

Treasurer; Secretary;

Notes: DRI = Directly Responsible Individual

Old Business

  1. Updates
    1. Flag [DRI: Eva]
      1. https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AcePca8pl86bZGNxamdqcGhfMjBmOGg2dHdkcw&hl=en_US <If you edit it, tell me…
      2. Drafted help: Mishan and Abhishek
        1. next week want a finalized design and a location where we will get the product from.
    2. T-Shirts [DRI: Alric]
      1. Met at Alric’s house on Wednesday
        1. Eric’s special friend is offering to help.
        2. Alric’s design feeback
          1. move the number (846) out of the image
        3. will continue to work on the flag, will get revision in by next week
        4. Drafted help: Annie
    3. Sweaters [DRI: Alric]
      1. have 13 people
        1. custom ink are ~$33
    4. Newsletter [DRI: Vincent]
      1. Room 612 by Rishabh, Jocelyn and Eric
      2. Community work by Michael L
      3. CalGames overview by Lucy
      4. Build season by Vincent and Jocelyn
      5. Extra mystery article will be added (personal article)
        1. proto-typing, personal logs, design process, new members, new mentors, last years members experience, surveys, interviews, senior member review, etc.
        2. Mishan and Anne; new member articles
      6. Deadline = Friday
    5. Awards [DRI: Eva]
      1. Entrepreneurship [DRI: Diane]
        1. will be working on it over the coming years.
        2. will be meeting with Akshat’s father.
        3. try and finish by next week.
      2. Woodie Flowers [DRI: Annie]
        1. will be working with Brian and Eric.
      3. Website [DRI: Michael L]
        1. will send some the survey/excel sheet of reviews of people ~50 people now
        2. Changes [DRI: Vincent]
          1. constant updates by Vincent and Michael C.
      4. Chairman’s [DRI: Jocelyn]
        1. half is done, rest is drafted, need some details and new information.
        2. done by friday.
        3. chairman video – Michelle and Christina
      5. Dean’s List [DRI: ?]
        1. curremt juniors: Brian, Diane, Aneesh
        2. Mentor submission
      6. DEADLINE: Jan 21st, 2012
    6. Kick Off Meeting [DRI: Akshat]
      1. room 608 – Got and set Criteria for the robot and presented it after the meeting was finished
      2. Alric’s House – good food, a lot of people talking about FIRST, Vincent stayed over to make a lego model
      3. Mentor Perspective: Mr. G, Mr. Xie
        1. lots of celebrities in this cast, 2 past presidents, Will.I.Am, Woodie Flower, etc.
          1. Description of talks by the talks given by these people, very good description of what FIRST wants and does.
          2. Review Woodie Flower Talks
          3. becoming more effective as these figure give it a stamp of approval
        2. All of the talkers craft their speeches for a certain topic
          1. Have an experience and they talk/exploit what the topic they want to talk about
  2. Research & Shopping
    1. Room 612 [DRI: Anurag]
      1. Re-arrangement is done, still cluttered with the moving of tools
        1. CNC – mentors (6) come and move the top of the mill from boiler room to our room. Lots of work and now in our room. Assembling will take place (4.5 hours of work)
        2. cardboard cut out was made to help plan our each and every move, used a crane, rolled the CNC using pipes. (4 feet took around 2 hours), tomorrow at 3 o’clock work will resume in the room. Had to remove the door from the frame.
      2. Now have a working phone
    2. CNC update[DRI: Mr.G]
      1. spoke with electrictian, the machine will be wired up soon
      2. the computer/controller has arrived
      3. with work can have motion as early as Friday.
    3. New York Regional Trip [DRI: Annie]
      1. Need to get head count, and mentor count.
        1. mentors will be called and asked. (price must be worked out for mentors)
        2. Prices will be finalized soon.
      2. Map [DRI: Akshat]
        1. http://g.co/maps/a7jqb
      3. Air Fare [DRI: Aneesh]
        1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc=key=0AlZBC0inNggfdDdMOUZMSDFwY2x2NkNnY0ZvWC16Wmc#gid=0
      4. Living Costs
        1. Gem Hotel $240
        2. Travel in $170
      5. Transportation
        1. charter bus?
      6. Restaurants
        1. New York Steak costs ~$40
    4. Proposal of buying a recorder [DRI: Alric]
  3. Classes and Lectures
    1. CD Robot [DRI: Robert]
      1. postponed until ship date
  4. Robot Design
    1. LRT Design Requirement Excel Sheet [DRI Brian]
      1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Amp-xlch-skQdFVZanM5WnZEdW9IOHRYR21HN0VYMlE
      2. need to work with mentor to create a mentor
      3. will go over in design meeting
    2. Mr. Xie’s Power Point Presentation [DRI: Mr. Xie]

      1. will go over design meeting.

New Business

  1. Split up work
    1. Subgroup work – members may sign up, list parents using comment section if parents are interested.

End: 9:48pm

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10
Jan 12

Day 4 – CNC! (1.10.12)

It’s finally arrived! Today, we moved our shiny new Tormach PCNC into room 612. The process, which all in all took around 5 hours, started with us going to Lynbrook’s boiler room to pick up the package. We moved the 1,300 pound beast in front of room 612, where we uncrated the machine. However, before moving the CNC through the door, we needed to figure out exactly how to orient it so that it would fit. We didn’t want to end up moving it up the door, only to realize that there is no way to make it fit. We modeled the shape of the CNC with a large piece of cardboard, and used that to experiment with the opening. In the end, we took off some of the motors and were able to find the right orientation so that the machine would just fit through.

Some of us were only able to go home for an hour for food, before we had our weekly Active Member’s Meeting. As usual, we went over the administrative tasks that needed to be taken care of. The highlights included talking about awards writing and planning of our upcoming New York City regional. For the complete meeting minutes, please refer here.

In the end, today was just a regular work day. There was not much talk about the robot design. We will leave that for another day.

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