Freight Frenzy Meeting #38

 Meeting 38

DATE : 2/17/22

Agenda: More Planning for State Championship

Attendees: Sean Pakros, Jessica Hawkinson, Zeke Humber and Nate Humber, Skyler Firestone, Coach Cynde

Notes: This was an after school meeting. We spent a large part of the meeting resetting the field because we took it to the Grade School for our meeting with the School Board.

We made some plans for Saturday’s meeting. We are hoping to have the build changes done by Monday. We have decided to go ahead with installing the wrist for our claw. We have all the parts needed to proceed. We will need to remove the plastic plate that holds the spring and create another stop and holder so that the plastic does not interfere with our arm retraction. We will contact Dan Killeby again to see if he can help us with some fabrication. Zeke would like us to create wall runners with the small Andy Mark tires we have because the mecanum wheels sometimes catch on the walls. he is working on a design for that.

We discussed that one of the robot tires is sluggish and pulling when turning. The wheel gears have picked up a lot of dust from being greased with silicon grease. Jessica will bring a toothbrush to clean them.

After our meeting with Aidan, we discussed reaching out to other FTC teams out of our area for outreach. Jessica contacted one of the first teams to like out posts on Instagram, The Prickles #16837 and we have scheduled a Zoom meeting for this Saturday.

At the end of the meeting, the claw started making a crunching sound and we realized that the servo was not functioning right. We had discussed concern for using the Rev servos vs the GoBILDA servos because of brass gears vs steel gears. We will change out to the GoBILDA servo next meeting.