8565 Pre-season Team Meeting #6 – 5/5/2018

Team members:

Austin, Ray, Anthony, Derek, Max, Evan, Amanda, Jerry

Agenda:

• Action items check
• Outreach leading logisitics clarification
• FTC Summer Chassis Study Project recruiting status
• Youth Robotics Fair preparation
  • Marketing planning
  • Volunteer training planning
  • Site Layout
  • Prizes
  • Approved activity preparation document finalization
    • Evan/Abhishek
    • Abhishek/Amanda
    • Jerry/Max
    • Brandon/Ray
• PTC CAD modeling QA
  • REV constraint tip
• Youth robotics fair activity review and approval with Coach
  • Max/Anthony
  • Justin/Austin (Sunday morning)
  • Audrey (review her doc)
• Team laptop setup
  • Brandon to setup Android Studio on Team laptop
• Ongoing work check:
  • Engineering Notebook Cover Design (monthly)
  • Prezi presentation Design (monthly)
  • AutoDesk capability investigation (monthly)
  • Outreach activity leads status check (monthly)
  • Chassis study project video (monthly) — Evan/Max to review plan then explain to Coach
  • Chassis Study Work Engineering Notebook entry feedback (weekly)
  • Chassis Study Work issue discussions (weekly)

General

• Summer Ongoing work:
  • Audrey: Engineering Notebook Cover design
  • Amanda: prezi presentation as visual aid for in pit judging interview
  • Justin: study the AutoDesk capability in rendering the simulation and automation with PTC model
  • Max: create the video for community wide chassis study project

Outreach

• General:
  • Everyone: indicating your availability for 6/29/2018 AT&T demo event
  • Everyone: fill in your preparation hours for the past events and YRF up to date
  • Audrey: update the engineering notebook cover design (check with Amanda for details)
    • split into two covers: one is “volume 1 of 2” and the other is “volume 2 of 2” with “Inspiration Book”
    • create spline insert with the similar info such as team name, number, season, book name and volume name
• Youth Robotics Fair preparation
  • Actions needed for the preparation
    • Everyone: Continue marketing the event: mark it green as you complete it (should have half of your channel done by next team meeting)
    • Amanda: Complete the siteplan and add the doc link to the team google sheet (make it editable for link or team email address)
    • Amanda: Invite Plano Senior High FRC team to showcase their FRC robot at Youth Robotics Fair
    • Coach: order trophies, prizes, cadies, tally counter, cones, tapes, electrodes
    • Evan/Abhishek: FTC Robot scrimmage and driving experience — final actions after reviewing
      • split the information into our own explanation and the reference points that volunteers need (update based on feedback from RCCG demo)
      • preparing the scoring form for the volunteers
    • Abhishek/Amanda: Myoelectric Prosthetic Arm Experience — final actions after reviewing
      • Amanda to get familiar with the arm setup and running
    • Justin/Austin: Robo Sumo wrestling  — final actions after reviewing
      • Prepare the materials for the challenge
      • Add the ring and robot start position tape diagram to both preparation doc and public rule page
    • Austin/Justin: Line follower contest — final actions after reviewing
      • Prepare the materials for the challenge
      • Add the score table in preparation doc
    • Samuel/Anthony: Roomba virtual challenge
      • no further actions and  Ready for Coach review and approve
    • Jerry/Max: 3D design Challenge  — final actions after reviewing
      • Update the material table with detailed informatiom
      • Add in hand out sheet with the example robot CAD model picture and the url and search instructions if the participants want to  search more when go home
      • Add in the example custom model pictures built based on the objects shown to the participants
    • Brandon/Ray: ipad RVW programming challenge — final actions after reviewing
      • confirm with Brandon if #4 and #5 challenges are working
    • Melody: Rubber Band Race Car
      • no further actions and  Ready for Coach review and approve
    • Derek: Spartan robot
      • Add in visual aids IR sensor range explanation: the current diagram is not correct. Use the info from Modern robotics website: http://modernroboticsinc.com/ir-seeker-v3-2
    • Max/Anthony: EV3 maze — — final actions after reviewing
      • Anthony to add in the picture of UI screen of the original app,
      • Anthony to add in the picture of UI screen of the tilt app and illustrating diagrams for the tilt actions
      • Max to get familiar with both EV3 controls
    • Audrey: Machine learning with IBM Watson Assistant and Scratch (MakeMeHappy)
      • Update the activity based on coach’s feedback

Technical

• Derek: complete the Robot model and prepare the BOM
• Anthony: email modern robotics to ask if they have sprockets; if not, can use actobotics sprockets and clamp on modern robotics 6mm shafts
• Austin: email actobotics to ask if they have the CAD model files for collars
• Melody: install the motor upside down so you don’t need to use gears and we can have slightly different chassis between yours and Audrey’s (ask Evan for more details)
• Ray: start building the example gear drivetrain from REV documentation to get familiar with the hardware parts and then come back to build the CAD model
• Jerry: add in the links to the reference where the FTC teams claimed that separate gearbox helped them; we will have Evan’s Dad to research
• Everyone: log your entries to the April engineering notebook; continue for this week, you will log anything your learnt and resolved in PTC while working on your chassis model and a picture of the latest chassis model in the engineering notebook, Due midnight Friday night