2025 Competition Week 3 – SAC Blog
On Monday, the team made significant progress in assembling key parts of the robot. With our new designs coming together, we focused on refining vision alignment by retesting the angle and direction of the camera for auto on the old robot, ensuring it properly detected AprilTags for more precise movement. Meanwhile, our driver continued practicing, further improving his skills to maximize our robot’s performance on the field. The control systems team worked on crimping the e-chain. Additionally, we finished assembling our third elevator of the season. We also had many students in the classroom building spare subsystems for Vantage and disassembling subsystems from the older iteration for spare parts. They labeled them and packed them into our pit and trailer. At the end of the day, we finished wiring and tested the new coral and algae scoring mechanism on our field, running a few cycles to check for reliability. We also worked on organizing the pit, making sure everything had a designated spot to make setup easier at competition. We checked our packing list multiple times to ensure we had all necessary tools and backup parts. Once everything was prepared, we loaded up our trailer and sent it off to the competition. We also posted our robot teaser, which was exciting to finally share after all the work that [...]
