Our practice chassis (one of two near-identical robots that we are building this year, the other being the show/competition bot) is rolling around and it’s pretty cool! The shooter and ball intake will be installed in a matter of days.

See our prototype shooter in action!

After just a few days of work, we have an automatic balancing proof-of-concept working. Using a gyro to measure the degree offset, corrections are made autonomously to balance the bridge with different amounts of weights on it.

Our Drive System, Obstacle crossing, Balancing, Shooting, and Ball Retrieval subcommittees continued to work hard on putting design proposals together and testing out different concepts. It was a great day!

We tested Mecanum wheels on a test chassis going over the bridge and barrier. While it’s viable, we are still evaluating these and other options for our drivetrain.

Building the field elements & test chassis, working on vision tracking, lots more!