Only one more day left until the competition! We've completed our entire robot today. It shoots with really nice accuracy! We get about 9 out of 10 balls into the net. We also programmed our autonomous period, so our coding's complete. We tried going with a 2-player control scheme, but it required too much cooperative teamwork for us to cope with. So we changed it back to a single-joystick control scheme.
Everything's packed, the toolboxes are full, and we have resolve. We're ready! Today we managed to shoot balls with fairly good accuracy. Now we can score about 9 out of 10 loaded balls! Yay! But it does have some problems with accuracy and can miss a few balls by either going too slow and hitting the net low or going too fast and overshooting or veering to the left or veering to the right due to an unstable ramp.
Now it's only 2 days until the competition! Let's hope things go well! Tomorrow all we need to do is code the autonomous period and MAYBE make a 2-player control system. We decided to do this because of an increase in efficiency of controlling. The robot is seriously almost done! Let's hope it's smooth sailing all the way to the end! Something's not working again, Our shooter's not cooperating. For some reason, when we shoot one ball, it slows down permanently. It might be a gear problem, but might also be a motor/stability problem. We would just need to troubleshoot a little. But we're running out of time, so we'd need to work faster! Hope it works well!
WE increased the angle of the shooter, and it shoots much better! Now all we need is a code to make out robot move well!
Today we planned our autonomous period! Here it is: It's really simple. We've started coding it, and will probably get it done soon.
Our robot is basically complete! All the wiring is done, and everything is on securely. The ball shooter shoots a little better, and we modified the ball collector to accommodate for the space it would take up.
We also added a sound-maker for good measure! :) UPDATE: The ball shooter works well! But it does have some problems with stability and the speed yielded by the gearbox. We would need to work on it further. UPDATE 2: We learned that the motors may not be able to achieve full speed without a code. So we would have to code REAL QUICK! We started on a new 2-wheel system and decided to make walk to black good shooters. :) We tried it last time (see 11/25/2015), but didn't follow through with it. We're really going to try it this time. The collector still works great, and we've attached motor controllers. We're almost done!
*Probably not. Every time we said that, we were quite far away. We pulled everything out again. We refined our ball collector a little and made a small ramp on top for low-scoring. We started working on a gearbox for maximum power. But it caught a lot and shook a lot, which would not work with real robots.
We're gong to have to try another gearbox. This is not good in terms of our process. We're gonna have to try more to make a better plan. |
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