Practice Field Building
Most of our manpower was spent on field building today. We started day making a lumber run for our modified version of the wooden field elements. We had a few alumni design field elements that would let us build the field easier than the team build version from FRC with the tools that we have.
Infrared playing DDS
Our 2018 robot makes a pretty good Cargo specialist. It might reprise this role during some practice session in the future.
Figure 4-20 incorrect measurements
Figure 4-20 in the DDS manual has two dimensions marked incorrectly. The two dimensions for the level 1 platform are wrong. They don’t include the lengths of the ramps (each ramp is 11 1⁄2 in. (~29 cm) long), yet the dimension lines include those lengths. Be sure to look at the official field drawings or the CAD of the field to get the correct dimensions and don’t use this image.
FIRST Twitch.TV Kitbot Build with Deejay Knight
HQ put together an awesome live stream today where friends of Spectrum Katie Widen and Nick Lawrence helped Deejay Knight assemble the AM14U4 kit chassis. If you are new to building the kit chassis, we highly recommend you watch the recorded video and follow along with the build. Katie and Nick will teach you a lot and make sure your drivetrain is built the correct way.
Link to the VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/359948486
2D Sketches
As we go through our design discussions, we work out some basic geometry for our design ideas. None of these are fully fleshed out, but they help us figure out if some of our ideas are feasible.
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