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Electrical & Code 2020

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Date & Time
Location & Author

  • Anna O.

  • Elan P.

  • Ella G.

  • Erika F.

  • Marlow T.

  • 2/16/2020

  • 3 hours

  • Aquiferland

  • Ella G.

Notes


 

Work Completed

  • Finished batteries
  • Re-attached the connectors from the bad one to the new battery
  • Imaged new RoboRIO
  • Imaged new radio
  • Finished fixing Octa's drive distance PIDController. B button now makes it drive forward 5 feet, give or take an inch.

Challenges

  • Heatshrink kept splitting on the bolt after being heated - had to redo several times
  • The heatshrink didn't fit over bolts

Work for Next Meeting

  1. Wire up NavX sensor to Octa or Frisbee, verify we know how to get gyro angles from it.

  2. Wire up new DT sensors and make sure we know how to get values from code.

  3. Get Robot-2020 codebase updated with Octa cleanup/learnings.

  4. Further discuss the placement of the encoder. Currently, we're thinking about integrating it with the motor (under the turret contraption). However, backlash is a possible concern. We should ask Adam, Chris, and other mentors for their opinions. 

  5. Continue testing vision stuff

    1. Maybe move limelight from Frisbee to Octa?
    2. Create DT command to align the robot with the port target, using the limelight's "tx" value from NetworkTables
    3. See if we can get the limelight to tell us distance-to-target for setting shooter range/speed
    4. Until we have a working turret shooter to play with, we can continue working towards making the robot rotate to align to a target using shortest path, but also handle cable bundling we'll have on the turret.  Meaning the turret won't be able to spin > 360 degrees, it will need to rotate the other (long) way sometimes to keep slack on the cables. We haven't written PID code like that before, so something to explore.

On Schedule?

No, catching up.