2025 Competition Week 4 Blog
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 [...]