Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 - SOAR League Zero Meet at Fremont Middle School

Date: Saturday 11/2/19

Agenda: SOAR League Zero Meet - meet alliance teams, help other teams, keep building to see if we can drive

In Attendance: Hayden, Sean, Liam, Tristan, Connie, Kairon, Coach Chad and Coach Cynde 

Note Taker: Tristan

Reflection: We met at the high school at 8am to load the robot and tool boxes and hit the road for Roseburg. Our robot is drivable, but the arm is not running right now, but we can work on it there and see if we can get the arm working. This sounded like a great plan, but when we got there, we realized we had left some of our tools and parts behind. We grabbed for the duct tape and tried to meet inspection. Some of the team mates walked around and met the other teams and looked at their robots. There are many new teams this year with very basic robots so far. We talked to many of them about how our robot is designed and functions. We also advised a few teams and offered our contact information, especially for help with programming. There are many teams still having initial programming setup issues and Sean is willing to share what he can. It was great catching up with some of our old league mates and talking to some of the new ones like the team mates from Pulsar!

We did not know there was going to be scrimmage today for all the teams. In the past the scrimmage was open those who were ready. Instead of staying to observe the scrimmage and just watch, we voted to return back to the robotics room and get back to the build. We are anxious to finish building and start testing!! 

We finally changed out the old wires with the new JST PH(MH-FC) to JST XH(MH-FC) so that we don’t have to use the level logic converters and to clean up our wire management a bit. We also attached the servo to the x-rail winch to test it and it isn’t stable enough or as strong as we need to extend the x-rail quickly. Liam worked on converting to the other hex motor for the extension. We are hoping to be able to get running by this Thursday so that we can start testing and practicing. 

We only have 3 weeks until Meet #1. Next Saturday, we will set up the field on the cafeteria floor for practice and invite our Mentors to stop by and see what we’ve been working on and see if they can help us get further along.