September 26, 2011 Practice

Today, Jared and Ian were building their attachments of an elevator and the arm. I helped attach the arm and began programming for arm usage in the autonomous code. We all watched Jaret debug his joystick program "JoyOS". We made a great deal of progress today.

August 26th Meating

Today we worked on a lot of stuff. Jared worked on making an arm. Tyler worked on the automounus code and I drove the robot with the joystick program. Thats pretty much all we did on this meating!

Mark your calendars...

J2IT is now offically registered to compete in the FTC OH Regional Qualifying Tournament on January 13-14, 2012

   Robot/Software Inspections Friday, January 13, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
   Tournament Saturday, January 14, 7:30 am

Location

Cuyahoga Community College
Eastern Campus
4250 Richmond Road
Highland Hills, OH 44122

FTC-OH Qualifying Tournament

September 19, 2011 Practice

The interior of our robot, or
as Jared calls it, the tech package.

Tonight we finalized our driving system for our robot. We finished adding wires for motor controllers and then mounted the NXT. We then took the time to add the Samantha Module for Wi-Fi usage with the NXT. We did not get a chance to experiment with the new device.

We did get to get an atonomous program to use a simple driving pattern. I am planning on adding some simple behind-the-scenes functions that influence major functions. We will also add sensor inputs.

Jaret also started his joystick and got his program to move forward and stop the wheels. We had a very productive meeting today.

September 17, 2011 Practice

Jaret working with the
new joystick

Today, we started replacing the school's Tetrix parts with our own components. We also started to modify the robot to fit the challenge.

Some of the changes included re-creating the motor an servo controllers, along with the very important battery pack. We also started creating new joystick program using our brand-new joysticks.

New Motor and Servo Controller Mounts

September 10, 2011 Practice



The logo for this years's challenge.

Today, we watched a live stream of the challenge being released. We watched live Q&A and the challenge video. We also enjoyed food while watching the broadcast.

After the live session, we went back to work with braistorming ideas and planning the next meeting. We got a few good ideas flowing for working with the objects and containers.