February 22nd: Robotics Meeting

Today was not bad.

In today's Robotics meeting, we got a decent amount of work done. I finished making the timeclock system last night so everyone clocked in digitally.

For the engineering team, they worked on the lifting mechanism. Right now, it's a really large piece of metal that shoots at you if you push it down because of the springs.

For the programming team, we finally figured out what numbers we were reading. As it turns out, t stands for translation (movement), and r stands for robot. We thought that t meant the position of the camera in target space and r for the position of the camera in robot space. Anyways, after we cleared up that confusion, we began calculating standard deviation. However, since the camera is a bit laggy, there were a lot of duplicated values, so we need to redo the readings tomorrow.

The other members also worked on rebasing some test code for the launcher. It was supposed to be finished last week, but unfortunately, we ran out of metal contacts for the motor electric connections, so we're waiting for those to ship.

Our OrangePi and camera also arrived! Unfortunately, it isn't connected to the robot yet because the electric step down module hasn't arrived yet, but when we tested it on the robot by plugging it in from the wall, the latency and resolution and FPS that we were able to achieve were really good, but I don't remember the exact numbers.

Competition is really close! Hopefully we'll be able to finish very soon so that our drivers will have enough time to practice.

Thanks for reading,
Issac