Monthly Archives: April 2025

This week, we made huge improvements to be well prepared for the East Bay Regional (EBR). Since we finished CADing last week, we were able to start assembly immediately. This week has been packed with testing, improvements, and strategic discussions as we gear up for upcoming competitions. From refining intake mechanisms to optimizing our scouting app, every detail is being fine-tuned to ensure peak performance. We assembled spare components onto the beta bot for testing purposes, ensuring reliability and durability under competitive conditions. Additionally, minor improvements were made to the scouting app to allow for better usability and efficiency. To address control system stability issues, adjustments were made to the plate under the CANivore. On Wednesday, we focused on improving the practice field to better simulate real competition environments. By Friday, we had fixed the camera mount to ensure better visibility and alignment during matches. A new intake system with a larger wheel was implemented to address the issue of pushing the coral away during both practices and competitions. We are currently testing different wheel sizes, comparing 5-inch and 3-inch wheels, while evaluating the impact of material flexibility under high-speed rotation. Significant progress was made on Saturday, with improvements to the elevator rope mechanisms for better stability and control. The energy chain routing was also covered in stripes to [...]

Returning from the SAC regional, the team made notes to get ready for the next competition, the East Bay Regional (EBR).  The team met up for a competition debrief in the beginning, which includes discussion on the scouting app and the robot improvement. We realized that driver practice and auto-routine would be the main focus of week 4 and 5. Another meeting on Friday, the team began fixing a few minor flaws in each subsystem. As from the competition debrief, we decided to use aluminum as the material for outtake. Along with the outtake, the team had agreed upon more molded wheels on the intake. Observing from  the SAC regional, the team realized that more wheels on the intake can help us obtain a “touch it and own it” intake system. Not only the improvement made in the intake subsystem, the team also fixed the elevator to make it more sturdy and stable when it is reaching from L1 to L4. The software and the hardware systems fixed the elevator along with the end effector to allow us scoring from L1 to L4 without any issues. Vision is also improved to fully-autom ated scoring. Apart from our subsystems, we fixed minor electrical problems we had before during the SAC Regional, for example, the CANcoder and the Kraken motors that [...]