On Saturday, January 6th we hosted FRC Kickoff at Cherokee High School where we invited teams to watch the game reveal for Crescendo and attend our initial strategy meeting. In this meeting, we collaborated with members from Red Watch Robotics and Heights Bytes Robotics to review the game and break down key elements for game strategy. During our game analysis, we researched the ways to earn points, earn ranking points, and evaluate the cycles of a match. We reviewed game rules to identify potential ways to play defense and discussed robot tasks that should be performed throughout a match.
We have spent a lot of time this week understanding the game and the best ways to accumulate points. As a team, we identified the technical aspects of the game and prioritized what actions we wanted our robot to do. Based on the team's priority list we utilized KrayonCAD to illustrate design ideas. We utilized a decision matrix to rank design ideas. Two ideas fell relatively close in ranking so we spent the duration of today's meeting evaluating the complexities of the design at a departmental level.
Tomorrow we plan to finalize our initial designs to begin CAD modeling and prototyping of the subsystems.