We just finished our 5th match. The robot drove just beautifully, and the autonomous mode driving was perfect - it went nice and slowly, and hit the opposing wall after almost exactly 15 seconds. It seems that there may be something wrong with the pneumatic cylinder though, as they never tried it. of course, they never stopped under a ball, so they may not have tried. we’ll have to find out.
EDIT: The cylinder works, they just weren’t able to use it due to other robots hitting us. So everything worked perfectly!!
We’re about to play our fifth match at the Pacific Northwest regional competition. We’ve been having trouble getting the pneumatic piston to work, but the problems seem to be corrected now with some significant design changes. We think the drive system is ready and the pneumatic actuator works, and we have code for autonomous that should just drive forward slowly, although that has not yet been tested.
We’ll just have to see how it goes.
As the shipment date gets closer, we hurry to finish our robot. The arm is nearing completion, and the pneumatic actuator is going well. We are starting to run out of room on the board itself, and therefore searching for safe mounting room elsewhere.
On Tuesday we tested driving the robot around chairs, and found many known and unknown errors. Most of the people on the team got to test drive the robot, and only a few small parts fell off at random. We have also mostly figured out the status light! yay!
