SEPTEMBER
2018
September 9 2018
topics
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Watched Challenge video
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Brainstormed building ideas/programming methods
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Outlined basic ideas for fundraising/outreach
coding
Using Vuforia library
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Image recognition and positioning to orient robot on field
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better performance during autonomous
building
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Latching and Landing
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Extending arm with gear box to latch and land
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Scissor lift to raise rope to latching point
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Mineral Collection
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Double claws(concave scoops)
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Large wheel with smaller training wheels
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Vacuum?
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Mobility
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Mecanum wheels
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Legs to get over crater lip
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BRAINSTORMS
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No Criticism Debate, or critical remarks are allowed
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Questions for clarification are fine
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No Idea is Dumb Wild Ideas are encouraged. Adding to Ideas is fine
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Emphasis is on generating as many ideas as possible
September 17, 2018
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Setting up repository on GitHub
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Installed Android Studio
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Talked about a few problems we might encounter
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4 drawer slides
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2 elevating lift to cargo hold
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2 pushing out into crater
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Sweeper with color sensor sorting
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Claw picker upper thing
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Sweeper system
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Rotating lever to sort between balls and cubes
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Sorting based on the color sensor
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Funnel to prevent too much intake
September 24, 2018
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Interested in creating
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A library/tutorial for programming language
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A library/tutorial for building and using a linear slide for future teams
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Learn about Vuforia
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Plan the robot
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CAD for basic chassis
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modified with mecanum instead of omni wheels
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moved from drawer slides to linear slides
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Additionally decided on two linear slides with rotation
For these two meetings, our big focus was on fundraising. We got more people signed up to contact businesses, and we already have some money coming in.
Our captain is taking the opportunity to make guides for how to code common features our robots have, while all the programmers are busy with fundraising. Team members are also helping him with learning about the Vuforia library to aid in the autonomous