2025 Build Season Week 4 Blog
Over the course of this week, our team has made steady progress toward finalizing our Reefscape competition robot! Our driver, Arman, continues to practice with the Crescendo competition robot, Alphabot, and the Reefscape competition drive train. Arman has been testing out different controllers, he recently settled on the Scuf Reflex FPS controller. Eric and Max had another productive week working on the scouting app. The UI was finalized, AI features were added, and it is now able to record scoring for Auto, Teleop, and Endgame! While we are mostly done with the prototyping phase of our build season, our CAD team is working hard to finalize the competition robot CAD and drawing files for handoff to the manufacturing and assembly teams. The Reefscape robot's weight limit of 115 lbs, is proving to be a bit of a challenge, so our design team is looking for creative ways to reduce the weight of our robot and to improve the packaging of the subsystems onto the swerve drivetrain. As mentioned in last week’s blog post, we decided on a 4-degree angled elevator mounting to simplify the end effector design. The manufacturing team has completed manufacturing all the [...]