Below is Omega’s Engineering Binder for the 2018-19 season. Click on sections from the Table of Contents to skip to that section, and scroll within the embedded document. You can also view the binder on Google Docs here.
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NorCal FTC Regionals – Independence High School
Last weekend Omega 9656 attended our first ever Regional Championship at Independence High School! After an intense 2-week rebuild, our team entered the competition ready to win, and it was an awesome experience seeing and competing with all of the other FTC teams in Northern California.
Unfortunately, some parts of our new rebuild didn’t work as intended, but we are proud of getting 10th seed in the Silicon Division. This entire Rover Ruckus season has been a huge success for our team, and we can’t wait to see where the future takes us!
Continue reading “NorCal FTC Regionals – Independence High School”Redesigning, Rebuilding, and Preparation for Regionals: Meeting Entries #55-71
Meeting 55
Date: 1/15/19
Time: 3:30-5:30
Attendance: Trinity, Rebecca, Nidhir, Ananya, Josephine, Afra, Rohan
Plans/Goals
- Reformatted our sponsorship email into a formal business letter
- Retighten drivetrain motor mounts
What Was Accomplished
- Started reformatting our sponsorship email into a formal business letter
Notes/Additional Information
- At the qualifier, our chain kept coming undone because of the motor mounts, so we need to take the top layer of the drivetrain to tighten the motor mount, which is why now we’re reattaching the top layer of the drivetrain
- GOATS came over to our workspaces today
Reflection/Takeaways
- Trinity needs to take a break
- We need to do a better at doing binder entries
Regionals CAD Renders
Qualifier 3 – Berean Christian High School, Walnut Creek
Yesterday our team was notified that a spot had opened up at the Walnut Creek Qualifier that was going to be held the following day. After deliberating, we decided to go just for fun, as a last hurrah before officially going offseason. We were able to pull together a skeleton crew of 6 members.
This qualifier ended up being a major milestone for our team! Our robot performed consistently and scored well for our alliance partners–well enough to be 4th seed (4th place) in the qualification rounds. This put us in a position to select our alliance partner for the semifinals, and have a chance at getting into finals and thus qualifying for regionals.
After advancing through the semi-finals, Omega unfortunately lost the extremely close final, but nevertheless we are proud of getting this far–the farthest we’ve ever gone in Omega history.
We won the following awards:
- Finalist Alliance Captain
- Think Award
- Inspire Award, 1st Runner Up
- Control Award, 1st Runner Up
- Connect Award, 2nd Runner Up
We are so proud of our entire team for working hard to constantly improve the robot and code, specifically: Nidhir Guggilla (Captain), Justin Do (Co-Captain), Tommy Vo Tran (Programming Lead), Trinity Chen (Mechanical Lead), and our mentor, Kevin, who was very busy that day but still showed up in support. We would also like to thank our parents for supporting us in this last-minute endeavor and throughout the season. Lastly, we would like to thank our semi-finals and finals alliance partner, Team Future 14473.
Next stop: Regionals! (If we are lucky and win the lottery!)
Pictures are below.
Continue reading “Qualifier 3 – Berean Christian High School, Walnut Creek”Qualifier 2 – Cisco Building
Today, Omega went to our second qualifier of the season, located at Cisco in San Jose and hosted by Tacobots (FTC 11099). We improved greatly from our performance in our last qualifier, having an extremely reliable latching mechanism and improving our autonomous program to consistently sample the gold mineral. Even our win-loss record improved to 2-3 (we mostly lost due to disconnections and bad luck).
Because of our hard work, we were able to take home:
- Rockwell Collins Innovate Award
- Inspire Award, 3rd Place
- Control Award, 2nd Place
Preparation for 2nd Qualifier: Meeting Entries #49-54
Meeting 49
Date: 12/29/18
Time: 1:00-6:00
Attendance: Justin, Trinity, Rebecca
Plans/Goals
- Finish cable management
- Figure out solution to hanging problem
What Was Accomplished
- Mounted electronics
- Found solution to hanging problem by moving the latch back
- A strong spring was used to tension the return cable
Notes/Additional Information
- We have ordered cables that we need to connect the phone and the robot which allows us to test our code
Reflection/Takeaways
- This is the first time we are slightly ahead of schedule! All we need to now is code.
- At first we were hesitant to rebuild, but the risk that we took paid off
Continue reading “Preparation for 2nd Qualifier: Meeting Entries #49-54”
Redesigning & Rebuilding: Meeting Entries #39-48
Meeting 39
Date: 12/10/18
Time: 3:20-6:00
Attendance: Nidhir, Trinity, Josephine, Rebecca, Jonathan
Plans/Goals
- Try to get 3 auto paths done based on encoder values
- CAD a new drivetrain for the planned rebuild
- Send emails to potential sponsors
What Was Accomplished
- Got 1 auto path done (gold center path), framework laid out for rest, just need to calibrate values
- Started sending emails to potential sponsors from list compiled earlier
- Finished CADing drivetrain
Notes/Additional Information
- We plan on doing an entire rebuild for the next 4 weeks
- We tested auto path 2, or gold right path
- We need to finish CADing our robot with the attachments on the new drivetrain
- Our wiring does not disconnect anymore
- We have decided that it is not worth it to go for the crater because we do not have the ability to hug the wall to get there since we cannot strafe
- Depot side now has a verified 72 point auto ⅔ of the cases, and the third case has yet to be tested
- We need to decrease power on the move function because it kept overshooting and the built in pid got stuck in a loop
- We discovered our programming lead’s math is 90% correct and only needs small changes
Reflection/Takeaways
- We are thinking of asking for more monetary donations and calling local businesses to ask about sponsorships
Continue reading “Redesigning & Rebuilding: Meeting Entries #39-48”
Omega Engineering Binder 2018-19
Below is Omega’s Engineering Binder for the 2018-19 season (Rover Ruckus). Click on sections from the Table of Contents to skip to that section, and scroll within the embedded document.
Qualifier 1 – American High School
This past Saturday, Omega went to our first qualifier of the season. It was hosted at American High School, in Fremont, CA on December 8, 2018. The game this season is Rover Ruckus, and we had a pretty decent robot built and programmed. However, we had connection and autonomous issues, which resulted in a ranking of 14th place. Fortunately, lots of things went right–for example, our lift and intakes worked correctly most of the time, in addition to our planned presentation in front of the judges. For our next qualifier, we plan to rebuild and fix the problems we had in our first competition! Below is a gallery of some pictures from the event.
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