Littleton Robotics Team Finishes Season On Top
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Littleton Robotics’ Mechanical Advantage FIRST Robotics Competition Team Finishes Virtual 2021 Season Ranked #1 in New England with Five Awards
For Immediate Release (Littleton, MA) May 12, 2021 – Mechanical Advantage 6328, Littleton Robotics’ high school FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team, finished the 2021 virtual competition season with substantial student learning experiences despite the COVID-19 restrictions, a regional and international ranking, and five technical and business awards. For the 2021 season, FIRST pivoted to an …
Software and the Hood
We mentioned some of the changes we’ve been working on with our shooter, and we’d like to give an update. To recap, we identified an issue with the three positions of our pneumatic hood. Between wall (the lowest position) and line (the middle position), we had a dead zone where making shots was nearly impossible. …
Hood Modifications
To accommodate for the different gameplay this year, we decided to modify our middle shooter hood position. Our shooter hood has three positions: the outer and inner positions are actuated using a piston, and the middle position is a catch with two sheet metal hooks and a pair of solenoids. First, we used the existing …
Switching Between Driver/Operator Controls
Background For a while, we had a single set of operator controls. In our rookie year we built a driver station on which was mounted two Logitech joysticks for the driver plus an operator button-board with a couple of E-Stop Robotics CCI interface boards for subsystem controls. (It also had an Arduino to drive status …
Introducing Onshape4FRC.com
In going through the process of switching to Onshape here on 6328 we realized there are tons of great resources out there, but it can be hard to easily find them when needed. In addition the initial setup process of getting all the parts libraries and featurescrips added could be confusing. When creating the documentation …
Galactic Search Update
We’ve talked a little bit about the work we’ve been doing for the Galactic Search challenge, and we’d like to share some updates on our progress. The general process we’ve defined for completing the challenge is this; we first select a path and place the robot in its starting position. While the robot is disabled, …
A Little Message from the Game Design Team
Team 6328’s Game Design Challenge team has been working very hard over the past few weeks and has reached a point where we can share our created game with the FRC community. Included in the post is the required documentation (game overview, notable field elements, expected robot actions), ELEMENT description, field images, CAD models of …
All Things Electrical and Wiring
One area we haven’t really talked much about is electrical. So, I thought it might be time for a post about things that have worked well and not so well for 6328. Your team may make different choices – but maybe you’ll get an idea or two! Focus on Quality Wiring The quality of the …
Leadership and Project Management Training – 2021 Season
On Mechanical Advantage 6328, we’re always looking to improve, whether it be our robots, capabilities, processes or our members. As you know, managing a team of 40 can be difficult. For the 2021 season, these challenges have been compounded due to COVID and the need to be socially distant. As a result, the team identified …
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