Sometimes things go as expected, even in competition robot development. The August 23rd meeting was our smoothest yet. We were able to transition fully to VEXnet control (woooo for fund raising!), practice driving the "whole" robot (accumulator arm not ready to run full-blown quite yet) using the VEXnet joystick (sweet), accomplish optimization of our surgical tubing assist while also making it easy to disconnect in seconds to work on arm joints as necessary, added one of the two additional motors to our arm lift joint (the other arrived UPS after the meeting), decided there was no need to take mass out of our already very thin polycarbonate sheets (that tubing and added motors ROCK!), and we were able to create a driver-control programming schematic, get it all successfully programmed in EasyCv4 for Cortex, and after two sets of bench tests and one set of tweaks - reversing a few motor channels - everything operates as it is intended in driver control mode!
We'll be updating our Flickr account and our Youtube Channel in the next few days to provide more visuals for you all, but for now here's our punchlist for mechanical "completion" of 1414's first ever robot. A list we hope to complete Friday:
1. add hard stops to arm lifts
2. add soft/spring stop to accumulator
3. mount number plates
4. mount graphics
5. mount flag holders
6. mount final motor
7. finish motor and wire labeling
8. remove temp electronics mount and replace with final mount
9. Find loose connection for one of our drive motors and retape it
10. Make sure no drive shafts are protruding from chassis
11. Add angled tower supports
12. Mount graphics
13. Ensure current tubing assist allows for match starting position of arm
14. File sharp edges
With similar good fortune next time we should see the robot score her first game object on our practice field Friday!
Until then,
Kressly
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