January 26th Practice

On Saturday's practice, Jaret, Ian, Ben, Etienne, and I accomplished many productive improvements as we quickly approach our Pittsburgh competition date. I helped out by completing any miscellaneous building tasks necessary, as I wait for the final robot to be complete so I can adjust my autonomous code. Etienne worked on mass-producing some components we needed many of, like a servo blocks and some other things. Ian worked towards preparing for the ramp to be attached, and Jaret worked with Ian. We also had some fun preparing some decorations for our robot.

Jan 15th, 2013 team practice

Our last compotition was a huge success! We won a judges award for over achevers because our robot performed epically and our presentation was liked by the judges, even though we had some difficulties and really hard challenges, our team progressed very efficiently through the compotition. Even though we didnt move to the next compotition, we did very well!

January 1st Meeting

Today, we made our final strides and we are now ready to compete in our first competition. Tyler showed off  his elegant autonomous code, and he also worked on compiling our engineering notebook for our team. Jaret added code to his teleoperation code to work with the new hardware, which Jared and Ian finished updating. They also attached the ramp, and it has been weight-tested. We are now in practice mode, and we feel we can do prosperous.

December 29th Meeting

Today, we made much progress in our robot as we prepare for our upcoming competitions. Tyler worked on finalizing autonomous code, and the infarred sensor can now see where the becaon is 100% of the time and perform the task accurately each time. Jaret worked to help with some "dirty work" and cleaning of robot components, as well as continuing his normal work as the teleoperations programmer. Ian and Jared worked on preparing the ramp, which was wonderfully designed by them to be both compact and strong, creating a simple and elegant design. Our meeting was productive, and we are nearing the ablility to efficiantly compete and we wish all teams luck in their endeavors in prepearation.

Ramp building

Today we worked on the ramp for our fellow robot to ride up on. In order to have the ramp fold up on our robot, we had to build a slide for the ramp to slip down easily. The problem is that we can't get the ramp to slide down freely. Hopefully, our team will be able to build a working slide for our robot!

Scrimmage with int elegence; on December 21st, 2012

On December 21st, the team TBD scrimmaged with the other Aurora Robotics Team int elegence. We arrived and although we were greeted with hospitality. We had a few issues setting up the board, but after all things were all up working we got three matches against each other, and one collaboration match. The other team has made far progress, and appeared to be not entirely focused on improving what they had, so as we were in progress of both upgrading and fixing our robot, they had a few performance advantages. Also, we did not choose to run autonomous because we were in progress of improving, and they haven't started yet.

Infared Sites

Here are some sites that I found that are useful for infared tracking:
http://massftc.org/robotc/
http://web.mit.edu/roll/website/MITiBot/2875downloads.html
http://botbench.com/blog/robotc-driver-suite/
http://botbench.com/downloads/ROBOTC_driver_tutorial.pdf
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79248

Enjoy.



Edit 30th post :D