December 31st meeting

Today I made refined our joystick control system. I made the tank drive a lot better by adding a refined equation (JoyValue / 127 * 100 = Motor Value) that scales the joystick value of -127 to 127 into -100 to 100. I used the D-pad to make the elbow work a lot better, so i can refine it degree by degree. Tyler worked on the auto program to make it work better. It can now get the bowling ball but he is still working on getting the bowling captured.

12/19/11 Meeting

At our meeting we did many things. I did refined the joystick program to make expectational output. The equation is

MotorOutout = ( joystickValue ^ 2 / max joystickValue ^ 2)

Scrimmage Results

Congratulations Team on a great scrimmage.  8 FTC teams participated and all were high school except J2IT.  We scored 2nd place overall and had the single highest scoring game of the day.  We learned some great strategy and also some got some great ideas from the other teams to help finish our robot for the January competition. Thanks Hudson for hosting this great event.

Pre-Scrimage Meeting

Today our team was preparing for the scrimage at Hudson High School. I feel that we are well prepared even though our scisor lift has to be operated by the arm and not an independant motor. Today Jaret and Tyler worked on the programs revising and preparing them for the compotition. Ian and I both worked on tightening screws and packing materials for the compotion. I think that we will do well against the other high school teams, but I do not think we will come in forst for this scrimage compotion.

December 3, 2011 Practice

In our recent practice, we completed a lot of work with the autonomous program and making bug fixes in the joystick-control program. I added precise turning and driving, and I am planning on incorporating the infared sensor in a more precise method. Jaret and Ian started to incorporate dual joysticks, as they are used in that fashion in the competition. Jared worked on catalog the robot part, part by part.