Wow, yesterday was Kick-off and boy was my team busy! I apologize because that is partially the reason why I did not post anything yesterday. So, let me catch all of you wonderful readers up with what my team has been doing.
In the game Ultimate Ascent, we must design a robot that can shoot frisbees into goals of various heights. For bonus points, our robot has to be able to climb a steel pyramid of sorts. That is the simplest way I would describe it. Here are the links to the animation video and the manual as well.
FRC Manual
2013 Ultimate Ascent Animation
After the live broadcast of Ultimate Ascent, we immediately began brainstorming. Most of our team was assembled in room 127 at Fremont High School. We waited for our team mates at SJSU to come back with the kit of parts. Using the computers at our disposal, we researched about previous years games that had similar challenges to this years. We also started looking for clarifications on different aspects of the game in the manual.
When everyone had returned, we continued to brainstorm strategy. Our focus of discussion was how to score points and what design of a robot would accomplish that scoring.A climber robot that mainly focused on getting the extra points from getting onto the pyramid had the most points but was also going to very difficult to design and construct. A shooting robot that mainly focused on shooting would not be as difficult but would require more programming and accuracy. There are pros and cons to every design, our team discussed many of them.After getting a base idea of what we want our robot to do, which is to be able to shoot and climb to some degree, we ended for the day. We are meeting again at 1pm to continue to discuss, possibly build field elements and design some prototypes for testing. I will post more pictures and plans after today meeting.
Sincerely,
Hailey Sanidad
PR/Business Lead
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