February 15, 2023 - Driving Practice!

 Wednesday 

What a day! I'm going to jump to the exciting part first. We used the robot on a "fake field" setup in a big hallway for about 40 minutes today. That's amazing! We rotated through some people trying out driving and operating. It was so fun to see the robot executing all the things we've worked on for the last 5 weeks. Seriously so cool. I cannot wait for more tomorrow!

The sad news is we'll have to replace the redline motor on the gearbox that takes the shooter assembly in and out. We knew it was bad when it was smoking on Monday so it was a matter of time. Much better that the motor poop out today than at Eagan on Saturday so not altogether a bad thing. But still annoying we'll have to fix it tomorrow. 

As far things done today, we assembled the hood or ramp (whatever you want to call it). It looks stellar. Sam and Charlie did a great job on it. It's cool because even in our little bit of testing today, the ramp came in handy many times. 

Andrew did some more wire management and Edward did some great programming while we were testing to make sure things are all dialed in. 

We are on the final stretch! More to fix tomorrow and lots more driver testing hopefully. We'll also want to pack up some spare parts and make sure we have what we need. SO EXCITED for Saturday!

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