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Engineering:
Engineers have made good progress on the CAD over the week and are now almost finished and ready to start manufacturing! We’ve adjusted every subsystem over the week: the chassis, intake/hopper, indexer, shooter, and climber. To read more about these changes, please visit our Open Alliance thread. In addition to the robot, we’ve been figuring out how to scout this season. Since it’s nearly impossible to keep track of every single Fuel that enters the hub, we’re leaning towards a system where scouters rank teams on specific attributes in each match. This information is then put into an algorithm which gives us overall scores for each team in those metrics. https://www.chiefdelphi.com/t/2102-build-thread-2025-2026-open-alliance/506370/20 BOSS: Unfortunately, we didn’t get enough interest regarding the food/textbook drive BUT we have heard back from the Seacrest Village Retirement Communities and are currently working out the logistics with them. The Mini Swerve storage box is still a work in progress (need to buy more blue spray paint!!). We’ve also started looking through our FIRST Impact Award Executive Summaries from last year and are updating it to fit this year's demographics and activities.
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Engineering:
In the past week, Engineers have been making shooter, indexer, and intake prototypes and repeatedly testing them to narrow down on robot designs. We’ve now mostly locked in on our archetype—it’s essentially designed as a big box to hold lots of Fuel with a double-wide shooter, an intake that extends out of the box to maximize storage space, and a conveyer belt as a floor to feed the shooter (please check out our Open Alliance thread for more detail/specifics). We’re currently working on the robot chassis and wiring, CADing all the parts, prototyping a climber, getting into main robot logistics such as programming and determining camera locations, and building the game elements for our practice field. BOSS: After brainstorming during Kickoff, BOSS members decided to focus on two outreach ideas to expand our IMPACT: food/textbook drive with other robotics teams and going to retirement homes to tell them about FRC, our team, and helping with whatever’s needed. Over the past week, we’ve reached out to other FIRST robotics teams in our district and emailed local retirement homes in order to gauge interest, started creating new materials for this season, posted updates on social media, and coordinated with sponsors. We’re also working on revamping our Mini Swerve storage box and are planning to finish it next week. |
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