It’s o-fish-al, we’re in the swing of build season! From Kick Off to the end of Week 1, we’ve been very productive in preparing for the new game, Reefscape, and in building on previous designs to gain experience.
Mechanically, we’ve been prototyping our new robot using CAD for our season, and we’ve built the kit bot that FIRST sent us. To prepare for further testing and design, we’ve started assembling the field elements required for the game.
In the electrical aspect of our team, we’ve fixed brown-out issues on our old robot by replacing and fixing components, enabling us to do driver testing. We also prepared for the 2025 season by updating all devices to 2025 firmware.
On the programming side, we’ve done code setting up autoalign, allowing the robot to align to the field elements and score points using computer vision, and we’ve also done basic LED code.
In our other operations, we’ve been drafting scouting app ideas along with building up what our branding for the game would look like, brainstorming ideas for our shirt and our hoodie.
We’ve made a very solid base of progress for this build season, and we’re excited to see what it has in store for us!