4 posts tagged with "specials"

We had an open house tonight. We were also working!

• Driver Station Design (CornerGremlin, Mowi, Rowan, and others): They made a new design for the driver station because the old one was too clunky. I don't know much about the new design other than that it goes by the name 'Unicorn Horn'.
• Button Map (Me): I updated the button map.
• Compute Updates (Mowi and CornerGremlin): We had kept some computers on the 2022 code, but they updated the computers today.
• Merging Things (Captain 23): Captain 23 merged a bunch of branches into main.

Today is slow for right before Worlds.

WE'RE IN THE WALLS! WE'RE IN THE *** WALLS!

Apologies. Conferences were going on, so everyone had to cluster into the build room. Eventually Ops got their room back, but Programming only got about half an hour before we had to move to the gym. The cramped build room, combined with moving twice, had me a bit on edge. It felt like we weren't supposed to be there. Add that to the fact that we were supposed to be quiet, and it felt like the meme was appropriate. Or maybe it's just my not-actually-paranoia acting up. Who can tell. Anyway, things that happened today:

• Engineering Log (Mowi and I): We spent some time working on the engineering log. It's still in the outline stage, but Mowi started adding paragraphs.
• Misc work (Captain 23): Captain 23 worked on auto pathing, among other things.

Oh god, I just realized the opening ramble is more than half of the post.

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.

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.