WEEK 5: 02/09/24 With less than a week until the Week 0 competition, we began packing materials we needed to bring. We revised our method for attaching and detaching bumpers during competition and decided to screw on the brackets for now. We sorted screws and some team members revised the design of the intake and …
After finishing our essay and executive summary and submitting them, we’ve now shifted on our Impact presentation. Currently, we’re brainstorming the script for our presentation and what props we’re going to use, as well as setting up auditions for this season’s Impact presenters!
The executive summaries and the essay are polished at this point, we just need to do some finishing touches (i.e insert any data) and we should be ready to submit!
During this week, we continued to make progress on both the executive summary and the essay. One issue we ran into concerned what titles we wanted to have for our ‘10 ways we’ve impacted our community’ in our essay, and we eventually figured it out by having titles that were simple yet also conveyed Stormgears’ …
After outlining what things we want to talk about in our essay (10 ways we’ve impacted our community) and executive summary, we’ve started working on fleshing out those ideas through our weekly virtual sessions and in-person meetings. Even though we couldn’t discuss our impact past 2021, we quickly realized that we have an incredible amount …
Our team started working on outlines for both the Executive Summary and the Essay after the challenge was revealed, breaking up into teams to discuss what approaches we should use. We also discussed the main theme that we wanted to incorporate through our essay and our presentation-the fact that Stormgears is turning 10!
This week we were able to test our robot and driving around a real field at week 0. We learned that our speaker shooting is excellent when shooting from the front and aligned with the subwoofer. The side angles don’t work too well but we are able to get some notes in the sides. Our …
Week 5: This week we practiced shooting and intaking for the first time. We are able to do ground and source intake, and shoot into the amp and speaker. We made cycles practicing each skill, with chairs acting as obstacles for drive. Additionally, we tested our auto. However, we have some issues with drifting. Our …
WEEK 5: 02/09/24 After having a battery issue earlier in the week, we worked on fixing a fried SPARK MAX motor controller, a damaged NEO motor, and the wiring of the battery. We hope to implement a more meticulous process in checking the status and wiring of batteries. Many of our batteries had loose connections …
We got a 3 note auto sequence working and got the shooter and ground intake working how we wanted. We are currently trying to implement vision to help us with autonomous even more. We also are also working on getting lights coded for the drivers to use. We are having issues with the gyro which …
