The intake/shooter group has spent the last few days working on designing the shooter in Onshape with a couple difficulties. Originally, we designed the shooter to have a width of 16in, but with some extra thinking behind what we were doing, we changed it to 18in making us redo most of what we already had. On top of that the main side plate that we spent tons of time making our own without straight copying our RI3D reference had some bad measurements. This forced us to remake the side plate due to the old plate being very difficult to attempt to adjust. With all this new knowledge of what we are doing, we've decided to start prototyping the width of the different parts of the intake/shooter next meeting to fix the problem of non-stop measurement adjustments.
Week 3 & 4 Technical Post Design Technical Teams: Chassis, Intake/Indexing, Shooter, Tower 1. Summary During Weeks 3 and 4, the technical teams finalized prototype testing and shifted into a strong design phase focused on CAD development and system integration. The chassis group completed chassis CAD, tested vision systems using the Limelight and RoboRIO, and refined swerve module encoder testing. The shooter group finalized hood and baseplate designs through testing and extensive CAD work while refining shooting angles and adjustability. The intake/indexing team completed subsystem CAD integration, added a pivot mechanism, prototyped hopper belts, and finalized coding structures while refining designs in CAD. The tower team prototyped hook designs, researched optimal gear ratios, advanced elevator CAD development, and began preparing code for future testing. 2. Focus for Weeks 3 & 4 In Week 3, the primary goal was completing prototype testing and finalizing subsystem...