Week 1
Jan 4 2025
Ryan, our team's Chief Operation Officer, reviewed the daily agenda with the entire team before the kickoff video played.
Game Animation
As we waited for additional materials to be purchased from our local hardware store, we started our field layout. We measured and added tape lines around our field to label where completed field elements will be placed.
Analysis
Students lead subgroups and created shared documentation to review the frc 2025 game manual. The emphasis was centered around identifying how we accomplish the following tasks:
Ranking Points
Scoring Analysis
Strategy / Priorities
Auton
Teleop
Endgame
Tasks to accomplish strategies
Jan 6 2025: Snow Day
Jan 7 2025:
Jan 9 2025:
Kitbot
Our kitbot group made good headway on building the main mechanism. We are close to mounting the mechanical assemblies and wiring motors.
Field Build
Field build has completed the player station loading zone and working on creating the Barge and Reef. We needed to make a couple runs to the hardware store for raw materials.
Robot Concept
FRC 2910's 2023 robot had a very impressive telescoping arm with a pivot. It has inspired our design team to learn more about their design.
Prototyping concepts
Jan 10 2025:
We made the most of the inclement weather canceling school. So we came into the lab before the storm potentially cancels our Saturday work session.
We used block sketches in Solidworks to add more dimensional definition to our robot concept. We tested various end effector and linear extensions dimensions to see how it would impact our teams scoring.
Kitbot team needs to make an adjustment they discovered during assembly. One of the benefits to kit bot is that it is intended to teach our students about common mistakes from an experience stand point that will be prevented when we get to our final design.
We liked this climb concept featured in this video. This integrates well with our existing robot concept. We'll look to start prototyping the concept right away when we get back into the lab.