Summary of things that happened during September and the first October practice:

• ETT nights happened. We did the board demo, robot demo, and code demo, not in that exact order.
• The team now has new members. Programming got four and a half new people. I say half because Xiohan transfered from Build and Quinn transferred out to Ops. The new people are Serena, Zack, Davie, and Griffin.
• Kickoff for the Minne Trials (personal note: can the Turtle/Minne Trials/TEST please pick a name and stick to it) happened. The game is about corn silos. As usual, please look elsewhere for actual game rules. Xiohan and I attended.
• Rowan has started elevator code.
• The new students are learning Python.

Hello there ladies and gentlemen and others! We are back in the official training season. I was the only student here until about 7:30. Things that happened today:

• Board Demo Code (Me): We are planning on running a motor during Experience the Team night, and decided to fish out the old board code so we could run a Sparkmax. After several hours of trying to update multi-year-old-code, I gave up and wrote new board code.
• Item Sorting (Rowan, Emilio "[M]"): For the record, anyone with the "[M]" tag is a mentor, and generally won't be credited unless they did the majority of the work. The electronics still needed inventorying, and these two did it.
• Python Exampling (Chris "[M]"): Chris had to make the python code for EtT nights because I was busy and Rowan was gone.

Anyone who has been around the site for a while will notice that some names are gone. This is deliberate. Anyone who has left the team will have their name replaced by their title. The only way to find their actual name is to go into the code, look for the file 'TRUENAME', and read it.

We are back! Things that happened today:

• Safe Mode (Me): Our robot is going to the fair, so we needed to make it safe. The drive and arm speeds were lowered and intake was switched off.
• XPT night planning (Quinn): The Experience the Team nights were planned. We will have three things: Python coding, circuit board anatomy, and robot driving.
• Inventory (Rowan): Rowan went through our parts stockpile to figure out what we needed.

I am going to be doing less posting from now on, because I need to do important work.

It's been a while since the last post. Here is a list of the important things that have happened.

• Act of Liam came back from his trip. And there was much rejoicing.
• Captain nominations happened. The new roster is: Act of Liam for the whole team, Jospeh for Ops, Rasmus for Design, Clover for Production, and Rowan for Programming.
• Summer projects were proposed. I'm going to be learning the art of swerve!

Outside of that, it has mostly been cleanup and meetings. Into the off season we go.

Tournament posts are always long, so as usual, here are the highlights.

• We took the bus there and back, which led to some delightful team bonding.
• We stayed at an Air B&B, which most of the team agreed was nicer than a hotel.
• The robot did not work for about half the competions due to signal interference.
• We were not selected for the playoffs, but did collect the Carver division Team Spirit Award.

Anyway, read more below!

Addendum: Starting from here, any sections written by me will be using 24-hour time. 6:00 PM is 18:00, for example.

Yours Truly™ is the drive coach, Mowi is the co-driver, Captain 23 is the best at autos, Quinn usually has homework, and I think Rowan is the human player but I'm not sure. Anyway, the only people in the programming room today were CornerGremlin and myself. We helped Chris with the new driver station, and also gathered some things to pack. It was quiet.

Today was spent on last minute auto testing. Some other stuff happened as well.

• Carrying Test Pieces (CornerGremlin, Mowi, Me): We carried a bunch of the game structures from Great River's storage area in the gym up to the test area. Presumabley this happens every day, I just haven't heard about it.
• Driver Station Stuff (Mowi, then most of Programming): The planning on Tuesday has led to the modification of the driver station today. This took most of practice.

Kudos if you get the reference.

We had an open house tonight. We were also working!

• Driver Station Design (CornerGremlin, Mowi, Rowan, and others): They made a new design for the driver station because the old one was too clunky. I don't know much about the new design other than that it goes by the name 'Unicorn Horn'.
• Button Map (Me): I updated the button map.
• Compute Updates (Mowi and CornerGremlin): We had kept some computers on the 2022 code, but they updated the computers today.
• Merging Things (Captain 23): Captain 23 merged a bunch of branches into main.

Today is slow for right before Worlds.

Today we worked on a lot of different things that had to get done at some point.

• Auto Stuff (Captain 23 and I): The robot has a bunch more autos now. I actually made some and learned how they work. Personal note: I have wanted to learn how autos work since the start of the school year.
• Disabled Mode Lights (Yours Truly™): Yours Truly™ worked on setting up some code so that the robot will do things while it is powered but not active. This is mostly so we can run lights.
• Code Cleanup (CornerGremlin): CornerGremlin deleted a bunch of code we don't use anymore.

We are getting closer to Houston. Speaking of, WE WON IMPACT! WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

This is another long post, so here is the summary.

• We won the Impact award, gaining the opportunity to go to worlds.
• We made it to the semi-finals with alliance 4.

Anyway, click the button to read more or keep scrolling.