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Re: Mechanical/Electrical Off-Season Projects

I'm currently working with a couple teammates in taking apart and rebuilding the Aim High robot and turning it into a prototype/base frame.

Essentially I'm stripping it down to a drive train and pneumatics system, and an overbuilt electrical layout so that I can plug anything and everything into it. When we have new sensors, motors, arms, or whatever else that needs to be tested out, just snap them into the terminal strips and go.

Next step; get the camera, gear tooth sensors, and gyro/accelerometer working flawlessly on this chassis, so it's just a quick change over to next year's bot instead of frantic troubleshooting when the robot gets handed over to the controls team in the last few build days next year.