Last Minute Changes

[Tom Line]

Continous improvement.

In 2008, we didn't figure out a good full-speed ball-knock down method until the day before our first competition.

In 2009, we kept our turret out of the bag because we weren't nearly done with it.

In 2010, our ball grabber didn't work until the day of bag, and our lift-mechanism was working at half speed until our second competition when we put a new gearbox and a second motor on it.

In 2011, our minibot deployment system was finished on our practice bot then mounted on our comp bot during a 2 hour open bag window. We had 4 major iterations of minibot that year, where we completely scrapped the old in favor of something drastically better.

In 2012, we changed from a wedge style bridge lowerer to an arm in our first bag window. Just today, we changed our camera positioning, changed our ball-presence sensors, and are rewriting our vision code to be more robust.

It never ends.