Category: Engineering Blog
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11/15/17 – Final Pre-Thanksgiving Meeting
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Mavericks The Mavericks started to mount their new clamping system, mounted pistons to their lifting mechanism, and worked on pneumatics. A few of their members also worked on Clockwork’s shooter with some of their spare time. Mentor The mentors attached their sled to their arm. Panthers The Panthers repaired their elevator, worked with some broken […]
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11/04/17 – Mini Comp Updates
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Mavericks The Mavericks built their battery box, finished their linear elevator which required them to work through some problems with the bearing hitting aluminum, and worked on a wooden intake mechanism. After that, they tested their mechanism and worked on the programming that would move their robot forward. They then had one of their veteran […]
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10/28/17 – THOR at Millbrook
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THOR AT MILLBROOK On October 28, we attended THOR Thundering Herd of Robots) – a North Carolina offseason event. In this event, we competed against teams from all around the state along with a few rookie teams and teams from out of state. We went through qualifying with a 4-2 record, placing us as the […]
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10/14/17 – Programming Spotlight pt. 5
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FRC Driverstation Used to change the states of the robot. (teleop to auto for instance) It shows information such as the robot’s current battery voltage. Using the console to determine errors in code.
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10/11/17 – Programming Spotlight pt. 4
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RoboRIO Web Dashboard All the tabs on the dashboard and what they do. Assigning the IDs of the Talons on the robot in order to access them in code.
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10/07/17 – Programming Spotlight pt. 3
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RobotDrive Creating a new robot program. Making a RobotDrive object and adding the drivetrain talons in order to control the motors. Controller Input Xbox controller thumbstick and button inputs Using the controller to control the RobotDrive object during teleop mode
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10/07/17 – Intro to Mini-Competition
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Introduction to the game: We have split our entire team into 4 mini teams; 3 student teams and 1 mentor team each with a new student or mentor as its leader. For the student teams, skill is equally split up so veteran members are all on different teams. These four teams will compete in a 5190 […]
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10/04/17 – Programming Spotlight pt. 2
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Java Syntax Enums Arrays Switch Case
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09/30/17 Programming Spotlight pt. 1
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Java Syntax Variables Data types Methods Classes For Loops While Loops