32 posts tagged with "build season"

It's the first Saturday of build season, and I was the only experienced programmer there in the morning.

Okay, that's not entirely fair. The new trio actually has experience now, and they spent their time working on making command-based robots. CornerGremlin had a lot of errors in the morning, but they were sorted out. Things went smoothly for Mowi and Rowan. I spent the morning working on the intake and importing the CAN and Talon stuff.

Captain 23 showed up in the afternoon. We worked on testing swerve modules. We had to wire each motor and Cancoder in, test them individiually, and then unwire them and move on to the next. After testing, it turned out that most of the Cancoders didn't work thanks to soldering issues. The new trio tested their code on the TEST robot George.

Terminate log.

Today was the first practice of the build season! We have our game, we have a plan, and we can start coding.

Techincally Tuesday was the first practice, but it was basically "'kickoff part 2'" and the only important thing that happened was creating the repository of the 2023 robot. If you are looking for a descriptipn of the game, or of kickoff planning, please look elsewhere. While this is technically a blog, I consider it more of a record for internal information. It's on the site that's basically just for programming and no-one else has a reason to look at. I'm pretty sure Ops has a wonderful description of the game somewhere, and kickoff can be summarized thusly: "'We should do something!'" breaks into small groups "'What have our small groups decided we should do?' 'EVERYTHING!'" several rounds of voting "'Alright, back to small groups'". Repeat for ten hours until we finally figure out what to do.

Anyway, programming today. Captain 23 and Quinn worked on swerve drive. Yours Truly™ tought everyone else how the normal code works and had them make normal drivetrains. I helped out with that, but spent most of my time waiting for a job that turned out to not matter. That's life I guess. Also, Mowi expressed in interest in taking on the task of lights when the time comes.

I also learned that GITHub is a pain in the a** thanks to some backend stuff causing the branch to fork. That's why a lot of blog posts are late. Then again, this is more of a log than a blog anyway.