Hey folks!
In prep for kickoff, we wanted to take some time to share things we’ve been working on over the past year. And to belt-and-suspenders compliance with a rule that may or may not be present in the manual tomorrow.
Questions always welcome, happy to answer whatever you have!
Last Year’s Code
Offseason Swerve Testing
We continued our swerve development with a few experiments, related to more dynamic methods of path planning. The goal is to be able to autonomously navigate the field, avoiding obstacles we assume to exist (like field elements) and ones we detect to exist (like… notes).
Zero idea if this will make it to the real robot this year, but it was a fun set of experiments to try this fall!
A quick video of it running on the 2024 field:
A vector field directing motion in the 2019 field:
Status Light
We spent a bit of time over the summer reinventing our own wheel again, to make a little circuit board to blink lights and indicate robot status
Click here to see the board on OSHW Lab
Here’s the software:
Here’s the case:
Training Exercises
We did a little bit of work to onboard a few folks remotely this year, and this was one piece of the training. Figured we’d leave it here, in case it ends up informing how some robot code gets written.
Camera Mounts
And, finally, as part of improving our localization, we are looking at different ways to mount multiple cameras on extrusion. Here’s where some of that design iteration is happening: