Last saved 2011-Jan-21 11:00:00 AM
HIGH PRIORITY ITEMS
- Mount all wheels
- Determine best way to support and mount the gear/motor assemblies
- Determine ideal weight distribution.
- Determine and fabricate mounting positions for heaviest items.
- Battery, controls, motors, etc.
- Build super-structure to dimensions of new chassis.
- Try to use existing pieces of uni-strut without cutting first.
- Cut from pieces that are damaged to eliminate the damaged sections
- Do we need more material?
- Determine how to mount manipulator arm / miniBot deployment arm
- Brainstorm this year’s game//done
- What robot capabilities are needed?
- How is game played and how are points scored?
- Route wires.
- Follow good wiring practices
- Power separate from signal
- No loose or dangling wires
- Use plenty of cable ties (zip ties)
- Solder all connections if possible
- Do not rely on crimped connections
- What additional wires/connectors are needed?
LOW PRIORITY ITEMS
- additional machine boltsnuts needed/done
- more bracing/angle may be necessary to stabilize shelves
- Set up last year robot with cRIO
- Hardware configuration
- Robot set-up
- antenna power (12 VDC)
- camera power (5 VDC)
- move wires from old processor to cRIO (PWM, DIO, AO)
- Driver station
- mount power strip, wireless router, driver box, 3 joysticks on board
- hook up laptop or PC to router with ethernet cable
- Test cRIO / PC interface
- power up robot, cRIO, PC
- run Driver Station / Dashboard
- check out joystick, camera interfaces