TeleOp: Harvester options: One particle conveyor belt harvester: Materials: Wheels, treads, plastic slats Pros: accurate placement of particles, reliable Cons: Slow, needs extra mechanisms, heavy Updated materials for building (no prototyping due to necessary movement)0090: Tank tread chain links,
9/24/16 Software
We began programming the autonomous today with the basic chassis. We are using the new SDK, which comes with a lot of changes and forced us to began reformatting the code. All reusable code from last year was moved over
9/24/16 CAD
We will use reference angles to model two large flat plates that are not pictured above and are held with rubber bands. This will allow a side or an edge to always be, for example, 30 degrees off of a side
9/17/16 CAD
New Autonomous Beacon Mechanism Patrick’s model of the new mechanism had a few parts that could not be replicated in Creo Rubber Band The two brackets that connected the 2 long flat pieces were each connected with only one screw.
9/17/16 Hardware
Chassis Design: Really fast robot; reliable; durable Speed over torque We decided to use a 2 wheel chassis instead of a 4 wheeled chassis, to reduce the weight and the amount of controllers to reduce the amount of disconnections. Instead
9/17/16 Software
Our autonomous goal is to press both beacons in autonomous for a total of 60 points. We have 2 choices: (1) have robot drive along the wall and arm extends out on the side – This is faster but the
9/10/16 Software
Today we configured the programmer’s laptops (Brandon, Samuel, Jerry) in preparation for coding next weekend. Things we did: Install/Update Android Studio to 2.1.3 Backup last year’s repository. Fork a new Github repository from https://github.com/ftctechnh/ftc_app/tree/beta Download our new repository to all programmer’s laptops.
9/10/16 Hardware
22 Based on our calculations from the kick off, we decided that for the first meet most of our points will likely be from autonomous, since a shooting mechanism won’t be finished by that time. For a more successful autonomous
9/10/16 CAD
Velocity Vortex Robot envelope: Penciled N shape: Chassis Blue box: Shooting system Red box: Beacon system
CAD Offseason 2016
6/25 Update As of now, I still have not received images of the hang robot, so I cant make the CAD model yet. As of the CAD design process, I have been going through PTC’s “How to Develop a Product”