Implement for 2024

General

• New recruitment video
• Increasing positive reinforcement
• More social activities, especially in the off-season (Season Timeline)
  • Game nights, escape rooms, dinners, etc.
• Use Kingston Robotics Lab location after the robot is built
  • Tools, practice space, setup a Pit to work in for good practice

Pit Area

• Talked about Pit food - having pit snacks?
• Stocking tools
• Colour Coding Tools
  • Indicate head type on Allen key labeling
• New toolbox on robot cart
• Remove everything except the best/necessary tools and equipment from the toolbox, updating the packing list accordingly (reduce overpacking, make it much easier to see and find the tools that we really need)
• Reorganize toolbox and yellow organizers for better use of space
  • Drawer separators for the big tool chest
• Try having 3 pit students and 2 pit mentors
  • 3 separate checklists - one for each student
• Robot cart
  • Add a lip on the cart to keep the toolbox in place
  • Make cart less symmetrical and put the robot on in the same orientation each time (eg. intake facing the side with the toolbox for close access)
  • Add a spool for the ethernet cable
  • Look at shortening cart for easier maintenance and lifting (rail height, wheel height?)

Scouting

• Putting data online for ease of access
• Revamping Data Validation
  • Each stat for each team has an associated error
  • Pit Scouting to generate flags for each team
  • Use flags to compare to inputted data to see if data matches flagged ability (ex. team scores high cone, but flags say they can’t)
• Personal Pick List online
  • Automatically merge into one pick list for Scouting Meeting
• Convert all features from current Excel sheet to online
• New scouting tablets (from summer camp)
• Check over /teams/XXXX for when db is accessed and why no data brakes the page
• Fix pushing that duplicates stuff
• When displaying numbers, round to sig figs
• Don’t display “no comments” comments
• Some sort of search bar somewhere to select a team
• Link teams on analysis page to team page
• Make urls for specific views
• fix average game pieces, currently says no matches played
• have a way to update robot picture

Strategy

• Slack threads for every quals match and elims alliances.

Drive Team

• Record matches from behind the glass

Reducing Stress Levels

1. Doing something fun completely unrelated to robots to disrupt potentially negative thinking
2. Better structure around focusing one match at a time. It’s fine to briefly think about the future, but the now is always more important.

Robot

Design

General

• Break down Priority List with individual requirements for the mechanisms, but separate from the list.
• Try 3D printed Tube Plugs
• Try 3D printed bearing hats (go over flange, rivet/bolt to plate). We had issues throughout the season with the bearings on the intake popping out.
• Try iron on bumper numbers (offset to one side to make it easier for the reversible design) - bumpers took a harsh beating this year

Prototyping

• Try the Spectrum Protopipe system for prototypes (PVC pipes with 3D printed fittings)

CAD

• Crayola CAD (block in basic shapes, refine over time)
• CAD and create spacers for hex shaft that isn’t hex to make it easier to align
• Use SolidWorks analysis tools
  • FEA analysis to understand failure points and rigidity
  • Collisions as a quick check for any collisions/intersections

Design Reviews

• More frequent and structured design reviews (see Design Process Improvements for 2024)

Manufacturing & Assembly

• Part and Assembly Drawings for in-house parts
  • Make sure we have drawing templates set up again
• Map out/plan for spacers
• Master spreadsheet for part manufacturing
  • Manufacture in order of assembly
• Make full spare systems (eg. swerve module, intake)
• Do test holes in aluminum and lexan to find the right drill sizes for us
  • Bearings (press fit)
  • 3/16 rivets
  • 10/32 clearance
  • 8/32 clearance
  • ¼-20 clearance

Electrical

• Investigate hall effect sensor wiring with the kraken
• Wire 2023 Robot Misha and Zoey with canivore and pidgeon

Programming

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Purchasing

• Have a spreadsheet with the subteam leads being responsible for making sure things are purchased on their respective tabs
• Have list of people who are willing to put things on credit cards
• Order before the season starts
  • Metal, lexan
  • Rivets
  • Washers
  • Bolts (look at grades, can ask Andy)