35 posts tagged with "competition season"

Huh, already March and only the third General Status Update. Weird.

• Cancoder updates (Mowi and I): We updated and re-organized 15 Cancoders. This is a good thing.
• Arm Update (Captain 23, Quinn): The math is done and the encoders are set up. All that is left is PID tuning.
• Button Consistency (Yours Truly™): Yours Truly™ did something I started a few months ago. He made sure that none of the button controls overlapped, no controllers were digitally created more than once, and etc.

Board.

We were working today. We even had all of programming!

• Button mapping (Mowi and I): We went through the code and found all of the buttons currwntly in use. This is useful because if two plus things are mapped to the same button, bad things happen.
• Arm work (Yours Truly™ and Captain 23): If we want the arm done by the 10000 Lakes Regional, we need to work fast. From what I could tell, they spent practice doing a lot of complicated math. I won't try to translate given that it is very complicated but it looks accurate.
• Intake work (Rowan): The intake work is going well. Motors have been linked to the rollers. Also it apparently uses the D-Pad, which I haven't seen used before.
• Endeffector polishing (Me): I modified the endeffector code so it should be able to run backwards now.
• Motor Assignment (CornerGremlin): A bunch of spark motors have IDs now.

When I say all, I mean minus Act of Liam.

So Duluth happened. Today was our first in-person practice since (Thursday was mostly talking about strategy and a good chunk of the team was online). Most of the team didn't show up. CornerGremlin was in the ops room all morning, Yours Truly™ and Captain 23 were at the practice field, and most of the mentors were out, so it was just me in the programming room. I just worked on the end-effector. It should function properly now.

I'm glad it was a slow day.

This is going to be a long post. After the packing events on Tuesday (which have their own blog post, it just got lost somewhere), we went on the trip. As this is a very long story, I have used the truncate function to conceal it from the general list. If you just want the highlights:

• We won the Team Spirit award.
• We made it to the second round of the playoffs, lost, and then lost our first match in the lower division.
• My roommate got Covid and it wasn't discovered until after the trip.

This will be the last post before Duluth. A very few things happened today.

• Light troubleshooting (Augie, Rowan): We troubleshot the lights. They work now.
• Packing (CornerGremlin and others): A lot of packing happened. Due to shennanigans, we weren't allowed to bring the cart.

Also, we hit a new record for Pink Panther Loops: 30.