Week 3: January 26th- 31st
This week was very busy for 1023. Wrapping up our prototypes we now have a clear view of what our robot and the upcoming season will look like.
Our team is doing a Toledo Walleye chuck a puck fundraiser. We would like to invite our sponsors to the suite. The suite tickets are $85 and include a hot dog, soda or water, and bottomless popcorn. This fundraiser is very beneficial to our team because it spreads awareness about FIRST and our team. You appreciate your support and would love to see you there!
Here is the link to sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054FAAA92AA7FFC70-58778171-toledo#/
Build/Electronics
On Saturday, the 31st, the build subgroup built our swerves for our robot. We had students working together to build them. Alongside the build team we had electronics members help attach the motors and wire them. Before we assembled the swerves, we cut our aluminum stock from ALRO to a usable length. We also put a new material mounting plate on the router.
The team assembling the swerves.
Strategy
One of our goals for Strategy has been to develop our own scouting app. For FRC, a scouting app is used to allow students to track how much teams score during a match. This helps us make educated decisions when planning our matches and picking alliance partners. This past week our new scouting app has been finalized. This week we’re switching gears to Tableau, the software we use to visualize our data.
Working on the app.
Impact/Media
This week impact recorded our impact video while also writing the woodie flowers essays and finishing up the short and long essays. We also finished up one of our projects we started this summer called our “On Track to FRC: a Cheat Sheet to your Season” which is a guide for newer teams on how to navigate a season. This week we plan to move forward with the cheat sheets and finish making the essays perfect to submit next week.
Our impact video costumes.
CAD
Last week was very heavy with CAD, our prototypes were wrapping up and we have been quickly starting to move our focus. We have 4 main groups working, the climber, shooter, intake, and hopper. We are lucky enough that most of our team knows CAD which is very helpful for things to move quickly.
Some of our CAD groups.
Programming
Continuing to work on the turret while using the limelights to track positions. We have started to switch gears and work a little bit on auto pathways.
