Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff These days were the last days of open room for a while. Intake Redesign Planning: At Northern Lights we realized that a wider active intake would be very helpful. One thing that a wider intake would help us achieve is a 5 ball auto that…
Day 64 – NLR Semifinalists (03/08/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Match 63: Foreshadowing This was another tough match. Throughout the match we managed to out-shoot the other alliance, keeping the score slightly in our favor. However, the extra points they obtained from their double climb managed to barely tip the match, resulting in a loss…
Day 63 – Rank: Three (03/06/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Match 7: Failed to Climb In our first match of the day, we were doing well until endgame. We had shot (and scored) 12 balls. However, when we tried to climb, we were not able to do so. As it turns out, this is because…
Day 62 – Northern Lights: Practice Day (03/05/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff We skipped a few blogs. Day 60: We packed the trailer with our stuff Day 61: We brought the trailer and the students to Duluth Scouting We used today to get a more general overview of all of the competing teams. We started this with…
Day 59 – Final Duluth Preparations (3/2/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Most of today was spent on final preparations for Duluth. Tomorrow, we will only be meeting until 5:30 due to the presidential primary, so we aimed to finish all major robot changes by today. The mandatory Duluth travel meeting was also today (from 7 to…
Day 58 – ???? Comp Bot Works (3/1/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff Above: A pic of the comp bot shooting from the initiation line Things that work on the comp bot Wheel of fortune Flywheel shooter Intake Hopper Drivetrain Everything that we tested works quite well. We ran into a small issue with the hopper where one…
Day 57 – Testing in the Commons (2/29/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra, Andrew Georgioff, Wheel of Fortune The wheel of fortune mechanism was finished for our practice bot. This mechanism was designed to be actuated by a cylinder so the robot could remain able to go underneath the trench. Another similar copy will be fabricated for the comp bot…
Day 56: Comp Bot Assembly 10 – RSTLNE (2/28/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra Wheel of Fortune Today, breakthrough progress was made on the wheel of fortune spinner. We briefly attached it to the robot in its desired location, and confirmed that it will be able to spin the wheel of fortune. Afterwards, we took it off of the robot and…
Day 55: Comp Bot Assembly 9 – Journey to Belt-land (2/27/2020)
Authors: Andrew Georgioff, Ritik Mishra This is a picture of the robot. A lot of electronics and bumper-related tasks still need to be done, but most of the mechanical stuff is almost completely assembled/installed. Things that are done All belts are installed Intake, Hopper, Shooter are ready for electronics Things…
Day 54: Comp Bot Assembly 8 – The Big Belt Package (2/26/2020)
Authors: Ritik Mishra Belts Today, we finally got our shipment from SDP/SI. If we had not contacted them about our belt shipment, it would have arrived in April, which is a ways away. Anyways, now that we have our belts, we installed as many as we could onto the comp…