Team 2468 Robotics Openhouse
Team 2468, Team Appreciate hosted our first Robotics Openhouse on January 12 at Westlake High School. It was exciting to see current students and parents mixing and mingling with mentors, potential sponsors and visitors. The team had robots from the 2008 and 2009 FIRST Robotics contest and one robot from the 2009 BEST Robotics contest. Students demonstrated and explained the robots to the visitors.
Jackson Greulich and Scott Stoller from the 2008 Rookie All Star Team were present along with members from the Cedar Creek Team X FIRST Lego League team. Mentors present were Scott and Linda McMahon, Joe Hershberger, Tim Ousley, Tim and Dona Jordan, Michael Watson, Joyce and Bob Witowski, Sheldon Miller and Norman Morgan. Dr. Nola Wellman, Superintendent of Eanes ISD schools not only was there but also made a few comments to the guests and students.
Breakaway, the 2010 FIRST robotics contest, animation was played and explained for the crowd.
Brainstorming Night 2
After Openhouse, members of the team retreated to the robotics classroom to continue discussions of the Breakaway. Notes were reviewed from the Monday night. Discussion revolved around the six principles of offensive/defensive will, might, will not strategies as they applied to the three phases of the contest: autonomous, tele-operated and finale.
New ideas were discussed and recorded. A large portion of the discussion revolved about the types of robot for each zone of the field. Three types of robots were described: goalie or backfield bot, midfield bot and scoring/zone bot.
Goalie bot needs to be large or able to block shots of opponents, pin robots or disrupt shots by the opponent and be able to move back and forth across the field. In addition the goalie needs to be able to pass balls forward or score from this zone.
Midfield bot needs to able to maneuver easily, score from this zone, receive passes from the goalie bot and control balls as they come off the tower.
Scoring/zone bot needs to be able to score balls as they rebound or are delivered to the zone. Needs to be a bot that is maneuverable/controllable and quick.
Drivetrains were discussed and looked at it. We looked at omni wheels, mecanum wheels, swerve drive, tank drive and ackermann. Ackermann was eliminated from the discussion. Swerve drive would prove to be difficult because of ground clearance. Tank drive presents a problem of difficulty of turning on the carpet with tackie wheels from observations of the kickoff.
Maneuverability was decided as primarily important in the drivetrain.
Discussions also revolved around the top of the robot and the ability to receive a pass or absorb the impact of a ball coming towards the robot.
Good progress for the day.
Norman Morgan
Robotics I and II
Chem Con
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