During this week, we continued to make progress on both the executive summary and the essay. One issue we ran into concerned what titles we wanted to have for our ‘10 ways we’ve impacted our community’ in our essay, and we eventually figured it out by having titles that were simple yet also conveyed Stormgears’ […]
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After outlining what things we want to talk about in our essay (10 ways we’ve impacted our community) and executive summary, we’ve started working on fleshing out those ideas through our weekly virtual sessions and in-person meetings. Even though we couldn’t discuss our impact past 2021, we quickly realized that we have an incredible amount
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Our team started working on outlines for both the Executive Summary and the Essay after the challenge was revealed, breaking up into teams to discuss what approaches we should use. We also discussed the main theme that we wanted to incorporate through our essay and our presentation-the fact that Stormgears is turning 10!
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This week we were able to test our robot and driving around a real field at week 0. We learned that our speaker shooting is excellent when shooting from the front and aligned with the subwoofer. The side angles don’t work too well but we are able to get some notes in the sides. Our
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Week 5: This week we practiced shooting and intaking for the first time. We are able to do ground and source intake, and shoot into the amp and speaker. We made cycles practicing each skill, with chairs acting as obstacles for drive. Additionally, we tested our auto. However, we have some issues with drifting. Our
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WEEK 5: 02/09/24 After having a battery issue earlier in the week, we worked on fixing a fried SPARK MAX motor controller, a damaged NEO motor, and the wiring of the battery. We hope to implement a more meticulous process in checking the status and wiring of batteries. Many of our batteries had loose connections
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We got a 3 note auto sequence working and got the shooter and ground intake working how we wanted. We are currently trying to implement vision to help us with autonomous even more. We also are also working on getting lights coded for the drivers to use. We are having issues with the gyro which
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We started to work on basic auto commands but were struggling getting the command to run. We are still having some issue but it will hopefully be fixed very soon. Our vision progress is going good, we have gotten some data from the lime light and are working on using the data.
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We fixed our Auto and started making more complex commands. We are also working on tuning our auto PID to make sure the robot runs how we want. We also got the shooter to run smoothly and scored in the speaker. We are implementing sensors on the shooter to detect the note. We have also
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WEEK 4: 02/02/24 We started the week by fixing batteries. There was an issue earlier in the week where the batteries we were using for a testing drive caused the robot to shut down. Through inspection, we realized that this was because of loose connections. After fixing that battery, we checked the status and connections
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