April 2023

Week 1: The Initial Checkin is the initial commit in our public repository for this season’s robot, Charged Up. Directly after, we imported a completely blank project with storm utils and updated vendordeps, with the basic swerve drive code from the offseason. We also updated everything to WPILib 2023 this first week. As the first […]

Week 9 (3/10 – 3/11) This week, we connected the blue Ethernet cord from its switch to the arm. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Along with this, we also connected the Power Distribution Hub (PDH) to a DC to DC converter, which we then connected to the arm. Initially, the converter didn’t reach the arm so we crimped the

Week 8 (3/3 – 3/9) We soldered and mounted runway lights onto the arm of the robot. We are going to use these in competition to communicate with the drivers. We received power for the neopixels from the Power Distribution Hub which is then put through a DC to DC converter. The signals are coming

Week 7 (2/24 – 3/2) We worked on Robot Specs in order to learn about everything that goes onto the robot, and also worked on the wiring diagram of the robot. The wiring diagram is important in case something goes wrong with one of the wires. and we need to figure out where it’s connected

Week 6 (2/13 – 2/19) We found an issue regarding the CANbus in the arm. We created a temporary fix before we received more connectors and permanently fixed it. There was another problem with the safety light, so we redid the connector, and we still have yet to see if that fixed the issue. We

Week 5 (2/6 – 2/12) We’re still working on connecting the buttons to the button board, and we need more 3-pin housing for the buttons (the ones that don’t light up). We tried searching for the documentation of the joystick board (CY-822B LED Joystick board) in order to find any possible alternatives, but we couldn’t

Week 4 (1/28 – 2/3) We designed up our 3d modular design on SolidWorks, and decided whether we should make the design out of polycarbonate or wood. In the end, we decided to use polycarbonate.  Using this CAD representation, we are planning to either make the electrical box out of wood or tempered glass. Button

Week 3 (1/20 – 1/27) We worked on organizing a table of the button board specs-components of the button board (buttons, the kill switch, the led-joystick connector, and others USB wires/adapters).We recorded data about the voltage & current necessary to operate those components, and where (which pins) to wire them to. We did this to

Week 2 (1/14 – 1/20) Charging Station: Main goal: have it all autonomous (as a function of the button board)Sensors: Use gyroscopes like NavX to record the angle of the robot and then adjust to level out the charging station when the robot is on the platform. 3d Mobile Electrical Panel: We created a sketch

Week 1 (1/7 – 1/14) Button Board: Last Friday we worked on redesigning the layout of the button board that software had created. We looked at the old button board (Deep Space 2019) to see what parts would need to be bought. Then we rearranged the layout of the button board.  Originally, the substation and