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Meetings 2019

Attendance

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Students
Mentors
Date & Time
Location & Author
  • David S.

  • Adam P.

  • Michal O.

  • 4/14/2019

  • 3 hours

  • Aquiferland

  • Bryn G.

Guests

& Charlie & Caden & Reese & Zhaohan & Anna


Notes

Students, pleasssseeeee come to the shop

Work Completed

  • Pit workbench now has the bottom, middle, and top shelves! It can now fit 6 totes :)
    • Thanks Charlie and Caden for helping!!!
  • Work on climber
    • One button to do an entire climb now works! Just don't let go of the button in the middle :) --> See the video on slack, its pretty
    • Mounted and wired a new VEX bumper switch because the old one just wasn't working consistently for some unknown reason
    • Reese and Adam replaced the limit switch bracket thing that broke
    • Added code to use the encoder to stop the climb rather than the limit switch with slowing down but Adam tested it once and the arm stopped halfway through the climb --> will look into this tomorrow maybe?
    • Saturday the interp method in climber code was put back in and fixed (reversed the value lists)
  • Some beautiful posters were made!!!
  • Zhaohan got Frisbee bot completely good to go for defense tomorrow against our drivers!

Challenges

  • Wires
  • Stupid VEX Bumper Switches
  • Limit switch piece broke so climber jammed again --> fix was to have someone using a drill on the top and someone pulling the chain on the bottom

Work for Next Meeting

  • Pit workbench and layout:
    • Add a 2x4 on the back of the workbench to prevent totes from falling out the back
    • Add the 4 caster wheels on the bottom of the work bench
    • Sand down the edges to prevent splinters
    • Figure out where to mount the vise and horizontal band saw
    • Add light on top of the workbench
    • Finish the moutning for the caterpillar & blue banners in the back and the ctrl-z banner in the front
    • Cut and mount the whiteboards to the battery cart and underneath the caterpillar banner below the lights on the workbench
    • Cut the plywood that is going to be a shelf in the battery cart
    • Cut the plywood that will extend the surface of the red tool chest in the pit
  • Finish up the safety kit stuff we need for comp
  • Finish up the infographic of the robot --> talk to malia about this
  • Finish editing the outreach one-sheet --> talk to tori about this
  • Update the business plan to fix typos --> talk to david about this
  • Get copies made of the robot infographic and outreach one-sheet once they are done :)
  • Make buttons!!!
  • Print spares of whatever we need spares of
  • Print keychains to give away!
  • Install spare string pot using new printed mount
  • Code
    • Speed up the climb
    • Figure out why encoders to stop isn't working
    • Make the climb a toggle so nothing bad happens if the button is let go of...
    • Tune the pid used on the cargo arm when climbing, gotta up the P probably
    • Add safety precaution if some part isn't working... use the accelerometer and do blah if there is greater than a 10 degree tilt?
    • If we have time when drivers aren't there to practice, we can also look at using the front facing limelight for continous pid on the hatch mechanism
    • Also continous pid on the cargo arm, so when marlow moves cargo arm "manually" it's really just updating the pid setpoint

On Schedule?

I guess so, but there's lots to do in the coming week!