Probably should have started doing this day one... oops I guess I have a lot of catching up to do. I will continue this tomorrow with all the new time I have now that build season is over :/ .
Quite a bit of the material could very well be adapted from the many team and captains messenger group chat updates that I sent out, hopefully I can get through as many problems as possible.
PS. I started this at 2:30am, and I'm going to sleep now (4:00am) so if something is missing, I'm sorry.
If I had written a bit less, it would be 2^11 words in this note, but I'm too tired to achieve that perfection.
THE COMP BOT!!!!!
After an astoundingly short four days of building, we were able to finish everything (but code) and the shooter wheel (30 second fix) on the competition robot with an as-always too close time of about a half hour before bag. The good news is that we were able to hand over the robot for testing, even if we did it wayyyyyyyyyy (about two weeks) too late and only really had a few minutes of testing before we had to take it all apart again.
After wrapping up the competition robot construction, effectively making it finished bar some lexan, the shooter wheel, and some cameras, at 10:30 the robot was given over to electrical for a bit of testing
After a way too short testing session that only worked out a few of the most obvious kinks, I hope that the practice bot is close enough to the real one for it to work fine at comp.
Robot prepared for bagging:
It was Bag Day. Ughhhh last day of (my) last season. I'll miss this.
I miss Alexan and Isaac and their notes and their writing of the code. Pls come back from Mississippi, write some software to build houses for you or something, we need auto code.
We can fix all wrong with the practice bot, a.k.a., not very much.
We can also do other things to prepare for competition:
What needs to get done at CIR:
Eh... Too late to worry about that now. In reality, we were about two weeks behind, but I'd say our last week of build made up for a week of being behind, so the net behindness was only about a single week. Since we actually finished both robots by bag day, I'd say it was our best scheduling yet (which might turn some heads), and gives us all the time until competition to work with a fully functional practice bot, ensuring (hopefully) great code and great drivers.
We don't have much work (yet) planned to do at comp, so we should be able to fit in a full day of practice matches! Figure out a way to make that happen.