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Design Review #3Third Tuesday of the season means it's our third design review.Here are a few of the slides presented to the team by the subsystem leads today.Controls UpdateMore work…

CAD UpdatesToday we finally reached a point with multiple systems to create our top level Solidworks assembly and add in the subsystems.There are still a few subsystems to add but…

Shooter TestingWe did more shooter testing today. We made several changes all at once we normally try not to do but circumstances were somewhat beyond our control. The modified VEX…

Shooter HoodTomorrow we will be testing some new shooter hood additions. We have yoga mat foam and PTFE sheet mounted to the hood.Belt Tower TestingWe built a belt tower testing…

Controls UpdateOur controls Subteam has been working on several projects already this year.Their todo list is pretty longPath Following using BobTrajectory and HelixFollowerPID tuning using the WPILib 2020 implementationCamerasLimelight target…

ShooterThe shooter prototype was updated with a more rigid hood and basic velocity control on the NEO motors. It's shooting with 2 NEOs powering a 6" wheel 1:1 at 5000…

Block Robot UpdateThe new intake plan, allows for balls to rapidly be brought into the robot with a wide intake, and set quickly into the tower using a powered V…

Tuesday = design review dayHere are some of the slides from today's review put together by each of the subsystem lead groups.Photo of V2 Prototype using HYPEblocks, hopefully we will…

Everybot and Week 6 RobotsThis past Sunday, Spectrum was able to attend an event hosted by the Robonauts were Everybot and Week 6 demonstrated game play together. Both robots were…