13 posts tagged with "limelight hell"

There are two authors again now! Things that happened today include:

• Limelight Work (Us Two): We worked on some code on the limelight. It took three created files, four modified files, one deleterd file, and we still don't have it done.
• NEO Stuff (Yours Truly TM): WE love issues. Issues start with "I" and I don't like the fact that I have to solve problems I create :/ Oddly enough though, it's not too bad given the state of the robot. The NEOs were not showing up and it wanted to update and issue after issue but it resolved itself. The NEOs were then hooded up to a cool prototype but I had the NEOs running at .05 speed and then they were like "Lets go faster!" and so I cranked it up to 0.7 and it almost broke the prototype... SO we're still gonna play with that number.
• Skiplow Subcommand (Mowi): Making a command to run the skiplow.
• Endeffector Skeleton (Rowan): Starting the skeleton for the endeffector. We don't know what it's going to be yet.
• Swerve Stuff (Captain 23): Swerve calibration was attempted. It didn't work.

Next time, Limelight! NEXT TIME!

Today was a blinding day in programming. Mostly to us.

• Further Limelight stuff (Both of Us): Making SmartDashboard see the Limelight. It took a while and several failed attempts, but eventually we got the info from the Limelight to the robot and SmartDashboard. We also made a motor that should react to the light. The Limelight LEDs and circuit board LEDs were very bright, hence the day being blinding.
• More Swerve things (Captain 23 and Quinn): These two soldered wire on and recalibrated the swerve drive.
• Arm Work (Yours Truly™, Mowi, and Rowan): They worked on programing the prototype arm, and were succsessful. They also fixed the elbow of the arm because it wouldn't move, and rewired the robot to properly use the arm.

Take care y'all!

This is partially an experiment in formatting, using a bullet point list of things we did.

• Printing Apriltags (Yours Truly™ and I, assisted by Nyx). We printed Apriltags, which was a minor adventure because the printer wasn't normal. After a failed ethernet attempt and not being able to find Micheal, we just found a chromebook and just followed the instructions on the wall.
• Limelight Testing (Yours Truly™, Quinn, Rowan, and I). After the Apriltags were printed, Yours Truly™ and I got the board set up. Then Yours Truly™ altered some settings to get better visibility and we checked that the tags registered. This lasted most of practice because Yours Truly™ had the laptop with the actual limelight stuff on it, and I didn't know how to set things up.
• Swerve Work (Captain 23 and Quinn). More work was done on swerve stuff todays. I don't really understand what they're doing but it seems like swerve should... well, Captain 23 says that he hopes he finishes soon.
• Pneumatics testing (Yours Truly™). Some people from build needed a programmer to run pneumatics they were testing.
• Autonomous (New Trio). The new autos were tested today. The robot was short enough that the usual table barricades wouldn't work, and Mowi had the robot ram into him before it was adjusted. Outside of that things went smoothly enough, and the TEST robot drove, both autonomously and by joystick, with their code.

This has been your recap for this Saturday.