Team 1792 hosted our kickoff event with Team 7900 this weekend, and we are incredibly excited to play REEFSCAPE℠ presented by Haas. Following the kickoff live stream, we headed back to our build space to start reading the rules together to ensure everyone understands the game.
To test our knowledge, we played a Blooket game on the game rules to see where we stand. We ended our kickoff meeting with four critical questions:
What are the maximum points one robot can score in autonomous?
What are the maximum points a robot can score in endgame?
What are every skill your robot can have in the teleoperated period?
How can we guarantee a ranking point every match?
These questions are pivotal for our strategy, so our students went home to research and think about them. On Sunday, we reconvened for a strategy meeting.
Strategy for 1792
In our strategy meeting, we gathered in a Round Table setting to devise our season strategy. Our vision is to build a fast-cycling coral robot with the capability to score algae in the processor, and we will also aim for a deep climb in the endgame.
To refine our strategy, we used two key methods:
Impact-Ease Chart: This helps us assess all game components based on their impact on our overall performance.
MoSCoW Chart: This chart helps us categorize tasks into Must-haves, Should-haves, Could-haves, and Won’t-haves.
Prototyping
This year, we are putting a high priority on prototyping. Our initial focus is figuring out how to intake coral from the floor. To keep the robot design simple, we are prototyping an intake similar to a trident in shape, with a stick near the middle and arcs on the sides to center the coral.
Overall, these prototypes have helped a lot with knowing more of how the coral interacts with both robot and field elements like the ground, where we found it to be very difficult to pull the piece up at a steep angle longways.
We are excited to see where this season takes us and look forward to sharing our progress!
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