Rapid React Week 5 Recap
Week 5 Recap
The WildStang Robotics Program teams have been highly successful during week five. Team 111 completed their intake, and 112 finished their launching structure. Things are heating up! Both mechanical and electrical have done a lot in the past week, getting 111’s robot driving and 112’s robot frame completed.
111’s mechanical subteam has finished the feed system, built the intake, and finished the robot mechanically. During week six, 111 plans to keep the robot working and redesign the intake if necessary after testing. While 111 is testing and redesigning, 112 took a different approach to their robot build and design. 112 has completed their launcher structure, axels, and cargo feed, and made progress on the belts and motors. Their goals for this week are to finish the climber CAD, finish building the shooter and the climber and work on finishing the intake. As the mechanical side of 111’s robot has been completed, now electrical and software can get their hands on the robot.
The electrical subteams have taken the robots built by the mechanical teams and started to wire them. 111’s electrical subteam has finished the pneumatics, connected the ethernet cable for the limelight, mounted the compressor, and completed the electronics. Saturday came with problems for the 111 electrical subteam when they had difficulty with terminals throughout the robot. They never stopped working to fix the problem and came away with new knowledge about preventing the issue in the future. 112’s electrical is waiting on the mechanical subteam; during this lull, they have put their time into learning about the use and workings of ethernet cables. Their goal is to wire the shooter by next week.
111’s software subteam has been working on different auto subsystems, and they are planning to continue working on autos and the auto system to keep maintaining it. As the robot is completed by mechanical and electrical, software can now use the robot and test out their coding. This will allow 111’s software subteam to work out bugs in the programming and make the robot as efficient as possible. 112’s software subteam has been working on the robot programs and learning more about different software tools. They worked on the programming of the intake and feed and learned about logic and if/or statements. They plan to work on their climb system software and finish the everybot challenge assigned by mentors to test the students’ skills.
The strategy subteam, a combined subteam of both 111 and 112 is getting ready for the first real-life test of WildRank. 111 will be competing at a scrimmage in Oswego on Saturday, so they are planning to use their app to scout 2022 Rapid React robots. This event will allow scouters to practice in real life rather than via video, without the pressure of competition. Their goal for this week is to finish the public release documents, which will grant the public access to the breakdown of WildRank so other FRC teams can use it for their team scouting.
Finally, the communications subteam has been hard at work creating button designs, writing blog posts, taking footage of all the subteams, and working on mentor profiles for the website. Their goals for this week are writing more blog posts (including this one), working on pit awards and handouts for competitions, filming more footage of the other subteams, and finalizing the button designs. The communications subteam is looking forward to another week of great work by the other subteams.
As always, the WildStang Robotics Program had a great week and is looking forward to week six. We hope all other FRC teams have had a great first five weeks of the Rapid React build season and that the weeks to come are just as great. Our first competition is the Central Illinois Regional March 16-19th. Please cheer us along from home via live stream on Twitch (link posted closer to the event date) or our social media!