7 posts tagged with "competitions"

10K Lakes was not as good of a comp as Duluth, but we still did good. Highlights:

• We placed 14th in the rankings.
• We got picked up by the #2 alliance and then proceeded to lose twice in the playoffs.
• We won the Industrial Design Award.
• We will not being going to worlds this year.

The plan was for the team to be in three places at once today. Ops at the practice field, the drive teams at a mini-tournament called Shamrock Showdown, and the rest of the team at the shop. Then someone enabled the robot while the controllers were still in their holders, it drove itself off a table, and now we have zero functional robots. On a lighter note, here's what programming did today:

• Auto Work (Me, Rowan, Griffin): We made a bunch more paths and autos. The newest ones are three/four notes with automatic pickup.
• Radio Testing (Serena, Jason [M]): There were some communication issues during the Shamrock Showdown, and a lot of time was spent trying to diagnose and fix the issues. It turned out to just be firewall problems.
• Side Intake Stuff (Serena, Xiaohan): We might be getting side wheels to improve the intake, so these two made code for that.
• Code Cleanup (Me, Griffin): Our code has gotten messy over the past while, so we needed to fix it. Griffin did camelcase stuff, I removed obsolete items from Pathplanner.

Productive, but not as planned.

Hello! I will be using the usual highlight-long version format. Anyway, the highlights:

• We placed second in the rankings.
• We placed second in the playoffs.
• We won the Team Spirit award, which I am beginning to think is the 'loudest' award.
• All of the subsystems were functional, but the planned autoaim was not.

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.

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.

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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.

Today, half the team went to normal practice while the other half went to Week 0. Week 0 is a special competetion to make sure that FIRST's game software works/get newbies up to speed with normal competiton stuff/any other reason I missed. I was on the group that stayed at Great River, so I will let someone who went to week 0 explain what happened there. Things that happened back at the shop:

• Light stuff (CornerGremlin and Rowan): There wasn't a ton to do, so people tested light strips.
• Endeffector stuff (All three of us): This has a lot to do with the week 0 stuff. After some testing, it was determined that the ski plow did [DATA EXPUNGED] to either stablize the charging station or push cones and cubes around. CornerGremlin and I messed with the motore to get them working (although not without first accidently breaking them). Rowan actually programmed the thing so that it would work with autonomos.
• Arm stuff (Rowan and I): Given lack of other stuff to do, we started working on the arm. Rowan did most of the work, I offered random bits of adivce and patched an issue with the controller. Said work included firmware updates and testing.

(If anyone who went to the competetion wants to write something, Put Description Here).

One more practice until Duluth.

Also, tomorrow is my birthday!