Throughout the past few weeks, Team 930 has been working hard to put the finishing touches on the competition robot and preparing for the Sussex Scrimmage. The Sussex Scrimmage is a series of practice matches, early on in the season that gives teams practice before actual competitions. Look out for our video regarding the Sussex Scrimmage with this link (Team 930 - YouTube) that will be uploaded to YouTube soon.
The electromechanical team has been hard at work designing and building the robot. The CAD sub-team has been iterating on the robot using OnShape, creating version 2 and version 3 of our shooter and version 4 of our intake. They also finalized the camera mounts for the robot. The fabrication sub-team sanded and painted different steel plates for the turret and elevator. They also started on getting extra parts made for the upcoming regionals. The electrical subteam assisted in assembly and modification of competition robots and added the Limelights. They also added wires to our Kraken motors and fixed CAN errors as well as ethernet issues for the shooter prototype.
After 3 weeks of hard work, the FIRST Impact team has worked to make sure the FIRST Impact video, essay, and the executive summaries have been finished and submitted. The FIRST Impact Award which is awarded to the team that creates the most impact on their community while also spreading the message of FIRST. We are so proud of all the hard work our FIRST impact team has put in this year, and we wish the best of luck with presenting at competitions!
The programming team started to configure the cameras for the competition robot. They created commands for the subsystems and tested and tuned PIDs. To prepare for our upcoming competition, students reviewed the code then simplified and standardized it. Along with that, programmers also created and ran bug tests to fix any code issues. Programmers have worked on various new robot functions including getting the turret working in simulation and programming a button to automatically intake notes. They also implemented autonomous code to increase our accuracy on the field.
Our strategy team has been working to make sure we are able to collect the data we need from future competitions and ensure our match strategy is at its best. In doing so we’ve been working closely with our neighboring teams 6421, The WarriorBOTS, from Muskego High School and 6574, Ferradermis, from Whitewater High School to make a scouting alliance to share competition data. They also worked on making and finishing the SSIS package within the programming language SQL. This package allows our scouting data to be easily transferred between databases and allows us to analyze it. Strategy also trained all of our students to become allstar scouters by preparing them for competition and training them using practice matches.
The business team has been working on our weekly update videos, which can also be found on our YouTube channel. The 4 and 5 week recap videos have been finished and uploaded, while the week 6 recap video segments have been placed into the Sussex Scrimmage recap video which will be released sometime later this week. The business team have also worked to create around 11 button designs that have been printed and produced. These buttons provide a cool and comedic collectible to students and mentors alike. These buttons can be collected at competitions. The business team also finalized the sponsor banner and ordered it. The sponsor banner gets displayed in the pit during competitions and helps other teams identify us and our sponsors.
Thank you to all of our sponsors for supporting and helping us to succeed as a team. Everything written in this newsletter would not be possible without your contributions.