12810 QuantumX Meeting #7 -10/21/2017

Team members:

Austin, Anthony, Audrey, Melody, Max, Derek, Ray

Engineering Notebook (due Thursday night midnight)

• Overall: Ray
• Hardware: all builders
• Software: Anthony, Ray
• CAD: Max

Agenda:

• With 8565:
  • Grant application status updates
  • First In Texas article status update
  • 10/28 FTC Scrimmage logistics planning
  • 11/19 FLL Scrimmage Role assignments
  • Action item check (including Engineering Notebook)
  • Rule update check (Jerry)
  • Review scouting sheet and google form
  • Review Inspiration Book entries
  • Go over presentation
  • Strategy discussion/show prototypes/test prototypes
• Tune autonomous program for the robot
• Sign off last Engineering Notebook entry with Managers and Coach before leaving the meeting

Action Items: (Blue means completed, Black means ongoing and Red means uncompleted)

• General
  • Ray: fix 10/7 engineering notebook entry format issue
  • Ray: create team biography section doc following 8565 example
  • Austin/Anthony/Melody: update the pictures in the Inspiration book with the pictures which show more participants actions and 12810 team members (I will review your individual entries at the next team meeting including Ray’s summary text)
  • Everyone: Install REV hub interface app if you haven’t (we found it is very useful in the debugging and programming)
    • https://www.dropbox.com/s/a6ezz3pfd260hj1/REV_HUB_Interface_1.0.zip?dl=0
  • Everyone: Learn Servo and Servo Blocks from Actobotics (Austin)
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6IqQ39YrCc&list=PLHj0bn3rsCbROgyLfOHBrLirTMhpUg62o&index=2
    • https://www.servocity.com/what-is-a-servo
    • https://www.servocity.com/how-does-a-servo-work
    • https://www.servocity.com/servo-power-speed
    • https://www.servocity.com/servo-connector-types
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=Jx6Wx7vPPv4
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=AEJ6XJ8NCp4
• Hardware
  • Austin: Driver training
  • Melody: Driver training
  • Audrey: build the jewel ball mechanism following the design from 8565; I have servo block pieces for you to make it stronger (please come to pick it up, and learn how to build from Derek. The last youtube link in the above has quite some different ideas to mount it.)
  • Derek: complete the scissor mechanism with the new stronger servo; start prototyping the relic holding mechanism
• Software
  • Anthony: tune the autonomous program
  • Ray: program the tele op to score the glyph with linear slide
• CAD
  • Max: Continue learning the constraint in the detailed CAD model and build chassis of the robot
  • Max: Print the 3D model of the cable holder to the accurate size.