First post-kickoff meeting update:
We’re meeting less frequently than in the past. In part to reduce mentor burnout (people are having kids and buying houses and stuff) and in part to take a deep breath and make sure we’re heading down the right path. We’re also doing robotics work outside of meetings, which is somewhat more relaxing.
We made some initial decisions to guide our initial prototyping and design work.
We distilled some of our archetypes down to simpler descriptions. We settled on ‘fire support.’
We also did what we have termed a DPS analysis (you gaming nerds will get it) to look at what the more efficient operations might be for scoring. Note - tailor the difficulty and difficulty rating to your teams abilities if you choose to do this.
Some subtle tweaks to our chassis model. It’s coming along nicely. We are planning on using 4xneos in 2-motor ball shifters geared at 7/15ft/s with automatic shifting again. This sort of combination has worked well for us since 2018.
The AM performance wheels are sold out, so we’ll be looking at other options.
Prototyping is coming along, but nothing worth a picture or write-up yet.