Today, we talked about what we thought of the scrimmage on Saturday, since this was the first meeting since the scrimmage. In my opinion, we had a lot of fun, and we also made a lot of progress and were able to help other teams.
The scrimmage went much better than I expected. The night before, Tyler took apart the robot, then put it back together and made it work better than before, so we were actually able to drive in the first match of the scrimmage. During the course of the day, we made the back wheels chain-driven, mounted the scissor lift, and competed in several matches. Our new members actually got to drive, and they did really well, considering they had no driver practice! All in all, it was quite a productive Saturday.
Today, we also found out that we (not Garagebots, as we'd previously thought) will be planning the November 19th scrimmage. Before then, we need to make several hardware and software changes: make the robot legal, write some autonomies, and make the conveyor belt straight. Right now, our robot is almost 19" long- about an inch out of our required dimensions. Our conveyor belt also holds more than 15 balls, so that's another problem we need to fix.
We're also starting driver practice today, and it seems like we need to work on our strategy, because two minutes and thirty seconds is hardly enough time to do anything. We'll probably need to experiment with what gets us more points (bowling ball vs. crates, for example), but we also need to get faster at driving and picking up crates. Right now, we can barely grab, fill, and lift a crate in the minute and thirty seconds before End Game. Hopefully, we can improve with more driver practice.
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