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.
Introduction The preseason of Robotics is an extended time period that provides training for the team along with important skill building, strategy development, and testing. During this time, the team focuses on improving their skills in CAD modeling, manufacturing, code development, and branding. Each of our team's departments has been working on specific skills related to their field. In the design and manufacturing department, the team modeled robot parts in a CAD program and stocked inventory for the upcoming build season. Meanwhile, the software team worked on modifying and adjusting the code of a smaller robot to simulate and learn coding for the team's future robot. The Team The Charge robotics team is an award-winning team at Cherokee High School that competes in the FIRST Robotics Competition. The team consists of three major departments, Design & Fabrication, Software, and Branding & Marketing. Each of these departments works toward a common goal of designing,...