WEEK 4: 02/02/24 This weekend we finished up assembling the shooter and the intake. Initially, we made the intake out of MDF material. One of the mechanical team mentors, Mr. Eggert spent the night cutting the material using laser technology. WEEK 4: 02/04/24 Our intake is ready! We had spent the weekend melting […]
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WEEK 3: 01/26/24 We started the week by checking the quality of batteries. Due to the battery needing to be connected to the robot, there was a section of the panel that was removed near the front. This caused us to have to move back the PDP and change the wiring of the motor controllers.
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WEEK 3: 01/21/24 We started the week by building our new chassis. We spent the day tapping holes into the metal as well as sorting screws for the new robot. Soon, we finished the H shaped chassis and we were able to teach newer students how to transfer the swerve modules to the new robot.
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We had a lot of issues with the drive but after changing the library we used we got it working. We have autonomous code written but is needs to be tested. Good work has been done on the vision and we are still working on getting the location from April tag.
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WEEK 2: 01/19/24 We tested photoelectric sensors to see which sensors are the most effective for the intake and the shooter of the robot. WEEK 2: 01/20/24 We started planning and wiring the electrical board. We reused wire from other robots, so they are not all the perfect length. In the future, we will cut
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WEEK 2: 01/13/24 Next, we wanted to have ready practice equipment for our prototype. One of our mentors, Axel Rodriguez, guided a few students in building these structures following FIRST directions. Working together, we quickly built a speaker and amp in just a few hours. WEEK 2: 01/14/24 We built our first prototype! Using MDF,
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WEEK 1: 01/7/24 Stormgears begin the 2024 season! The first week we found out what the challenge was, and we got straight to brainstorming and designing CAD for our robot. First, we started by creating a rough sketch of the robot we thought would work well. One issue was that the robot would need to
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Week One – (1/13 – 1/19) Drivetrain is somewhat working, we are having some issues with the controllers but it should be running by next week. We have also added Advantagekit which we are hoping to house in the upcoming season. Vision is up and running we are able to get distance and angle from
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WEEK 1: 01/13/24 Stormgears starts its 2023 season! While the robot is in its works from the mechanical standpoint about the design, electrical is measuring the dimensions of all of the parts needed to be on the electrical panel. With all of these dimensions electrical is going to come up with a cad design of
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