2025 Build Season Week 7(February Break) & Week 8
This week, as we near the end of our build season, we had to commit to get our robot done in time and done well. We started the week with a friendly visit from two great teams: Quixilver and Goldstrikers. We discussed robot design with them, figuring out which methods worked for the other teams. We also had a lot of improvements to make on our own robot. Our robot was a little overweight, so we needed to figure out how to add some weight reduction. We changed our plates to be thinner and gave the belly pan some grates. This resulted in a mad sprint to machine and assemble our robot, which means we now have three competition drive trains! An Alpha bot, Beta bot, and our final robot, named Vantage! We began to remake the robot, with the overweight one being used for driver practice as the new one continues to get built. This helped our weight problem tremendously, and we should be underweight now. Furthermore, we had a lot of subsystem changes. For our outtake, we shortened the bottom plate and then bent it so the coral would be deposited from the indexer more smoothly. [...]