2023 Season Recap
What a great season. Ended the Magnolia Regional with rank 17, making it into the Playoff’s. Ended the Rocket City regional with rank 50 unfortunately. Great games though.
What did we do besides compete though? In the summer after the competitions, we did several outreach events. These include Robot Demos, a lego build meeting at the local library, and more.
Team Number Change
TLDR; We changed our teams number recently, their is not practical change because of this.
This is a late announcement (almost 2 months late), but back in October, we officaly changed our teams number from FRC-8733 to FRC-538. There is no real benifit to our team for us doing so. However, there are some reasons we made this change. The biggist reason is that it helps back our teams identity. Our teams name is Renaissance which means rebirth.
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2023's Theme
Saturday at the world championships, the theme for 2023’s competitions was announced. This theme covers all programs by FIRST. The promo video is down below or at https://youtu.be/m-qwsMmkFwg.
Regionals day 1 [4/7/2022]
Today is the first of three days at the Huntsville City Regionals. We got our pit setup yesterday. Today we did some finishing touches on the robot. We will be updating this post throughout the day.
Pits We got to see some cool pits. Here are some pictures.
Visits We also had some teams come visit us.
(We are unable to recover this image for some reason).
Team pictures We got quite a few pictures of our team.
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Status Update [4/6/2022]
Here is our third status update, and possibly the last one for a while. Yesterday was our last build meeting, although we may do a bit more work before the practice matches and the competition Thursday-Saturday.
What we got done Programming. I think the code has been done for a bit, however, I think there has been a few improvements just making the code better overall. Battery mount. For the longest time, we just sat the battery next to the robot when testing.
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Status Update [4/4/2022]
Here is our second status update. It has been a bit since I posted one because I haven’t been to a build meeting since I got the blog back up until today.
What we got done Mounted Shooter. The shooter is now on the robot. We currently do not have a reliable way of getting the shooter. Fold up intake. As the intake reaches out beyond the robot perimeter, we had to work on a way to fold the intake up, but also to be able to lower it at the start of the match.
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Main Site Down
EDIT: The site is back up. see the thread at https://social.opendesktop.org/@minecraftchest1/108069247184225392 for more details.
I broke the site again (yes, I know I need to stop doing that). This time, it is the main page (arsrobotics.org) that is down. I was trying to point the root domain to our WordPress installation, and now the Domain does not resolve.
What broke exactly? When changing DNS records in Cloudflare, I managed to get to the point where Cloudflare is giving an empty response from their DNS servers.
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Our Blog is Back Up Again!
For the last two weeks, our blog has been down. This was because of some issues we have had with our WordPress host (it was my fault, sort of). The issue came down to me running an Ansible playbook against our VM in Azure. Somehow, this messed something up so that the VM couldn’t boot. Long story short, we now have WordPress running on a Raspberry Pi 3 in my home, with Cloudflare tunnels used to make the site accessible.
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Status Update [3/17/2022]
This is the our first status update for the ARS Robotics Program. I hope it goes well. I hope to improve these posts as time goes on.
What we got done. Attaching motor for intake. After fiddling around with the intake assembly for a few days, we are finally got the motor mounted. Hopefully we are at a point where we can leave it alone and work on other stuff. Work on flywheel assembly.
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