The chosen 2024 battery naming scheme is dinos. We have a total of around 25 batteries with 5 of them being from 2024, so we need 5 battery names.
We are labeling the batteries with clear name tags so as to not confuse them with our other color codes (green=comp, blue=loaner, and yellow=practice). Please vote on our 2024 battery names so we can get them some clear tags 
2024 battery names poll (dinos!!!)
A huge downside to being a homeless team is that our parts are always being moved around locations and our schedule is constantly changing. We had a schedule change after our last meeting and a few other problems that arose, which resulted in this meeting being slightly delayed while we got our parts (all our parts were in one location and the meeting was in another. We did not plan to go to the location the parts were in, so we had a 30 minute setback and a fun time figuring out what to do and how we would get our parts.)
We had 6 students with 3 staying the whole meeting. There are 23 days until Tidal Tumble.
As we have stated before, the robot was wired temporarily just so we could test the drivetrain and intake. Now that the robot is coming along more and events are just around the corner, we are switching over to more of our āfinalā wiring (just a cleaned up version of the wiring. As always, nothing is truly the final version, so it is still subject to change as needed.) Similar to our manufacturing methods post, we will have a wiring post for practices we have done on TOAST later this off-season.
We had a cutting parts meeting followed by a regular in-person meeting. 3 students attended the cutting parts meeting and 4 attended the in-person meeting with 2 students staying the whole time for both meetings. There are 22 days until Tidal Tumble.
your horizontal band saw looks very similar to ours- do you have problems with the band derailing often? how tight to you usually tension yours to mitigate derailing? what band do you guys use, and do you switch depending on material?
Our horizontal band saw is from Harbor Freight. We have not had any problems with the band derailing. I believe we have only ever changed the blade once when the blade broke over the past like 4 years. We only use it to cut aluminum.
We had 6 students attend this meeting with 1 staying the whole time. There are 21 days until Tidal Tumble.
We were pretty busy trying to get as much done as possible, so we didnāt get very many pictures. We will have more pictures/videos in our upcoming posts! Shown are pictures from the CAD to show what parts of the robot we were working on
We had 2 students at practice at 4201 and 7 at the in-person meeting after practice with 2 students staying the whole time for both meetings. There are 20 days until Tidal Tumble.
We made a friend (Quackuette approved) (friend does not have a name 
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We tested the intake with the cut down tubing and didnāt have any issues with tearing notes! We did not test it as heavily as we have been, so we will be doing more testing next week to make sure the fix truly worked.
Most of our time was spent on software.
So like the robot did in fact not get finished mechanically this weekendā¦
We had 8 students at the meeting with 2 students staying the whole time. There are 19 days until Tidal Tumble.
We are implementing a new system going forward where all tasks are assigned before the meeting starts. That allows students to research their task (check the CAD and get familiar with what they are doing) and ask any questions if they have them. We feel that this process will help us better utilize our resources moving forward.
