2017 Build Season Week 6

Written by Sakshi Shrivastava ’20

After struggling through some problems, Gears and Fuel is back on track! They have redesigned practically everything and are working against the clock. They have been putting all the designs on CAD so they can use polycarbonate and are getting everything mounted and put together in order to have a cohesive robot ready for Robot Reveal Night.

Many Projects has built field elements, such as the low goal, lift, and davit for rope-climbing. They have completed the practice bumpers and are now working on the final ones. They are also working on the battery cart.

Chassis has worked on side rails and bumper mounts for the real robot. However, they have been struggling with chains.

Climbing has been manufacturing parts for the new robot while sorting out details on the janky bot. This coupled with lots of testing, they have certainly been busy.

This week, Business has been getting ready for Robot Reveal Night and competition!

Programming has been able to test more on the robot. They have added more to and are finalizing climbing code, and they are currently working on programming and testing the gear mechanism. They have finished basic chassis and climbing, combining all the mechanisms into one program. They have started testing for the auto-to-transmissions transition, especially focusing on how different joystick values correlate to encoder rates. Alongside all of these tasks, Programming has been testing autonomous mode.

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