Monday, October 31

Meeting Summary 10/31/11

Summary

FTC for Robotics Team:
  • Everyone: Brainstorm designs for specific game strategies, ball collector/storage, bin stacker, magnetic ball recognition, etc. (repeat assignment from last week)
  • Field team:  Began building ramp for field from field blue prints(Terrell/Antonio)
  • Mechanical/Programming: Experimented with raquetball collection and storage designs; Built, programmed, and tested a 'harvester design' from the Tetrix Quick Start Guide (Josh/Jaime)
  • Wireless connection: tried to understand what is need to configure the Samantha wireless connection(Brandon/Mentor Scott)
  • Bring in IR Seeker/Beacon for brainstorming(Eric)

SumoBots Competition for new members(run by Eric, Mentor Pinkesh):
We finally completed our NXT robots. Congratulations!!
Now remember to go over the different types of sensors we learned today.


Sensors
SONAR sensor - used to determine distance to object
Light sensor, used to determine surface tint
Sound sensor - used to detect sound
Touch sensor - used to detect contact with an object


Plan For Next Week:
FTC:  Use brainstormed designs for specific game strategies using game rules handout distributed; Select strategies that are reasonable with timelines for scrimmages and competition

SumoBots:
Design Process
  • Engineering Notebook
  • Brainstorming
"Bring'n It Altogether"
    • Programming
    • Mechanical Design
PS: Don't forget to check out competitions that may interest you on our website.

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