Here is a list of things that happened today.

• Elevator Work (Me): The elevator should be able to go to a fixed position now. It has also been converted from Talon SRXs to SparkMaxes.
• Minne Trials Work (Xiaohan): The escelator has been switched from a single command controlling both motors to seperate intake and outtake systems.
• Revolution Auto-Aim (Serena, Rowan): The math for autoaim has been completed.
• New Student Progress: Zach is learning command based programming, assisted by Griffin.

End of update.

Captain 23 came back for the day!

• PID and Offset Training (Me, Zach, Serena, Rowan, Captain 23): Captain 23 trained us all in how PID and offsets work with swerve. PID stands for Porportional, Interval, Derivative, which is a lot of fancy math none of us understand the 'why' of, just the 'how'. Offsets are how we get all of the swerve motors moving in the same direction.
• Command-Based Motors (Griffin, Davy): Griffin taught Davy how to make command-based robot code and spin a motor.
• Minne Trials Update (Xiaohan): More work was done on the Minne trials drive code.

The name comes from the fact that everyone in an orchestra tunes around the oboe, because oboes are a pain to tune, or something. I wouldn't know, I played drums.

Most of the Avalon contingent (read: everyone but Davy and I) was at the Halloween Dance, Build canceled practice, and conferences were happening so the rest of us were crammed into the build room. There weren't that many of us total.

• Minne Trials Code Testing (Xiaohan): Xiaohan spent practice trying to get the drivetrain for Minne Trials functioning.
• Computer Resets (Me, Emilio "[M]", Evan "[M]"): We reset the crashed computers and set up the two new computers. They all have VSCode and Git installed, along with the field tools.
• Command Based Programing (Davy, Griffin): Griffin and Davy (mostly Griffin, as Davy had to leave early) learned how command based programming work.

Adios.

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• Class Learning (TBF)

UPATE: The person who was supposed to write this forgot.

See comments from last week about wanting a replacement.

• Minne Trials Update (Xiaohan and I): The Minne Trials code has started. Xiohan made the drivetrain while I excised the example code.
• New Student Training Update (Davy, Griffin, and Zach): The new students are slowly learning Java, and Griffin is within three exercises of the end. EDIT: As it turns out, they actually finished that night.
• Elevator Update (Rowan and Serena): The elevator is now controllable via joystick.

That's all for tonight!

We are doing things again in Programming, which means that this can have the normal format again! But first a bit of housekeeping: Yes, the team retreat happened this weekend. Yes, it is very important to the team. No, I will not be covering the events here, because very little of it was relevant specifically and directly to Programming.

• Java Courses (Zack, Davie, Griffin, AKA the New New Trio): The new students are working on Java. If you're wondering why Serena isn't, we'll get to that.
• Design Doc (Rowan and I): A design document is a document that has all of the design details (stuff like hardware, software, and the construction process), used to help Build and Programming coordinate without the need for large meetings. This one is for an elevator some of us older students are working on while the new students do Minne Trials.
• Elevator Code (Rowan): Rowan made code for the afformentioned elevator.
• Swerve Work (Serena): As Serena was the programming captain on their old FRC team before transfering to NoMythic, she is learning Java by making a swerve drive rather than doing coding tutorials like the new students.
• Minne Trials Planning (Xiaohan): He was at the design meeting with the new students, because he and I are going to be working on the code for Minne Trials later in the year.

When I say I need an heir, I mean I need someone else who can do these. I need to do actually coding things.

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.