Today we welcomed several new members. We watched the game video again, had a talk about Gracious Professionalism, and then proceeded to take apart the last year’s robot. The team did a great job on it, now pretty much only the base with the wheels remain. The general consensus was that we will keep the base and build the new robot on top of it.
Now it is really the time for all new members to think about the new robot design. Watch the game video again, and think how can we build the robot so that it will fulfill at least some of the scoring tasks in the game. Talk to other team members about your ideas! Everybody should have a notebook (one where the pages can be pulled out and included in a 3-ring binder) and use it to write down ideas and make sketches of robot designs. You may want to watch FTC videos on youtube to see how other teams designed things in the previous years.
The programmers had some more practice with Processing. I highly recommend that all students who are interested in programming download Processing to their computers and experiment with it. Open various examples, study the code, try to predict what will it do, and try to change it so it will do something else. If you create something cool, email me the file, and I will post it here!
I am looking forward to see you on Friday.