date_range 06/11/2021

Field Setup

The field and game elements arrived yesterday, so today, we got ready for the season by:

• Taking apart our Change Up field.
• Setting up our Tipping Point Field.
• Organizing our toolboxes, because they got pretty messy by the end of last season.

date_range 05/26/2021

Research

Understanding Pneumatics

We know that pneumatics are a source of extra power that we think we should use, but we also do not want to make our Robots too complicated. Because we were not familiar with pneumatics, they seemed very complicated, so we did some research, watching the following videos on YouTube:

date_range 05/25/2021

Research

99484C Two Stage Lift

In Turning Point, this team used a two stage lift for reaching short poles and high poles, similar to how we need to reach two distinct heights of Mobile Goal Branches. The first stage could rotate independently of the second stage:

date_range 05/24/2021

Robot-0.1 Improvements

Mobile Goal hoarding Robots are still viable, so we should consider them until we have a plan that is definitely better.

date_range 05/23/2021

To meet Design Goal #1 (Design Brief: Set Team Goals, 5/23/2021), we want our first robot to be simple, so it is easy to build, repair, and improve on.