Attendance: Ian, Penelope, Tucker, Jared, Nick, Kevin, Ethan
Agenda:
- Haul stuff in
- Talk about electronics
- Talk about blogging
- Talk about safety
- Work on robot
- Test shaft encoders
- Think about sensors
What actually happened:
We all met together to talk about safety for both hardware and electronics.
We added the white tape lines to the floor of our partial arena.
We decided to change how the motor and servo controllers are mounted on our robot to give us more space on the top to design manipulators with.
We wrote some RobotC code to move forward N clicks and stop to learn how to use the shaft encoders.
Coach John's shirt pretty much sums it up for us...
What happened on Saturday:
On Saturday Ian, Kevin, Penelope, Ethan, Tucker, Chris, Ben, and Travis went with John and Jeff to OMSI, to demonstrate and work on our robots. One of the VEX robots from last year was there to be driven around.
Ian and Kevin did 
a little testing on
the Prototype
sensor board.
Then Ian taught Chris and Penelope a little about robotC.
Ben and Travis worked on team 267’s robot.
Ethan and Tucker supervised the VEX bots.
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I worked on moving the controller mountings lower, adjusting the switch and battery positions, and mounting the nxt.
i also wired the motors back to the controllers once i had placed the motors in their new spots
Penelope and I put tape on the field to simulate the official one, however it is only masking tape so we don't know how well light sensors will respond to it. We also put together a template that we can use for the meeting posts.
During the meeting I worked on righting a piece of code that would allow us to move forward then stop based on motor encoder values. After the meeting the robot was taken to an ORTOP event where the drive wheels fell off for some reason.
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