Monday, July 21, 2014
Renovating our main website!
Huge make over on our website at http://fremontrobotics.com Stay tuned for so much more!
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Into week three...
I'm Logan, a member of the software team and a new contributor to the blog. Since our last post, we've decided on a design, although there was a lack of consensus amongst team members. In the end, our leads had to decide. Our robot will use a catapult to launch the ball, while still being able to manipulate the ball easily through use of a ground control mechanism.
Although this is our current design, we may end up choosing a different one – we have both the catapult design and the secret (as of now!) alternate design CADed. In general, switching designs three weeks into the build season is a poor idea, however we are confident that we can pull it off if need be.
Since I'm on the software team and none of the other bloggers are, I'll talk a bit about what software is doing.
The software team has made the gyro work at last! We were experiencing issues with the gyro reading quickly varying between values that caused the motors to jerk back and forth, but we fixed this. If noise ("outlier" readings from the gyro) continue to be a problem, we will add in a low-pass filter, which filters this out.
Driving the robot is an absolute joy – with mecanum wheels and a gyro, almost anyone can drive with very little training. Of course, our drivers can't be "just anyone"... we are making sure that they have plenty of time to practice in order to master this driving style.
Although our team has yet far to go in the process of building our robot, we are confident that we will be done with plenty of time to spare. Already, we are far ahead of where we were last year. Watch for more posts in the upcoming weeks about further developments!
Although this is our current design, we may end up choosing a different one – we have both the catapult design and the secret (as of now!) alternate design CADed. In general, switching designs three weeks into the build season is a poor idea, however we are confident that we can pull it off if need be.
Since I'm on the software team and none of the other bloggers are, I'll talk a bit about what software is doing.
The software team has made the gyro work at last! We were experiencing issues with the gyro reading quickly varying between values that caused the motors to jerk back and forth, but we fixed this. If noise ("outlier" readings from the gyro) continue to be a problem, we will add in a low-pass filter, which filters this out.
Driving the robot is an absolute joy – with mecanum wheels and a gyro, almost anyone can drive with very little training. Of course, our drivers can't be "just anyone"... we are making sure that they have plenty of time to practice in order to master this driving style.
Although our team has yet far to go in the process of building our robot, we are confident that we will be done with plenty of time to spare. Already, we are far ahead of where we were last year. Watch for more posts in the upcoming weeks about further developments!
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Robotics website is going under maintenance! Yay!
As the title would suggest I am updating the media page specifically and the rest of the website will soon be updated too! I think thats all I wanted to say. So yeah go 3501! Lets all have a great build season!
- Evan Yap
Sofware, Electrical, Buisness Member
- Evan Yap
Sofware, Electrical, Buisness Member
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