The 3189 team went to the Kickoff at Davis Senior High School, and on the way back from Kickoff we strategized using the FRC game manual. We decided that our robot’s minimum capabilities should be:
- picking up coral from levels 2 and 3.
- climbing the shallow cage.
- collecting + processing algae.
Immediately: Mechanical assembled the game pieces, as well as the robot frame; Electrical designed the electrical board and wired the frame; CAD started designing prototypes for the coral intake and the climbers, while finishing the base of the robot; and the programming team worked on the autonomous paths and also the swerve drives.
The goals for the departments next week were as follows:
- Programming goals are to work on the articulation code and start algae intake constants and configurations
- Electricals goals are to utilizes all the space inside of the robot as well as update internal resistance values on batteries
- CAD’s goals were to get frame fully cadded and start designing the algae intake
- Mechanicals goal are to start assembling the frame from CAD and start to make a prototype for the robot.
Coral Intake V1: For our first iteration we decided to try and produce the simplest mechanism possible to get it working fast so programming can start early, planning for a more versatile system to replace it later. The idea is just tilting/rotating a cup that holds the coral to switch between a stored, collecting or dumping positions. We decided to use a Rev 14″ linear actuator because it was the fastest elevator system that would satisfy our requirements of scoring in level 1-3. 
Algae Intake: We were very confident that the 2014 FRC season held many great big ball collectors. We looked around and really liked Team 254’s intake from that year and decided to try and adapt that design to this game. 
Shallow Climber (aka Cap’n Hook): After our ambitious climbing troubles last year we quickly made simple slam-dunk climber in a box (Grey-T from WCP) design as a fallback. 
Deep Climber (aka Clawitzer): We have a simple RI3D deep climber that can be thrown onto any face of the bot to pull the cage into the bot horizontally. We will side the forks around the tubing and use a winch to pull the arming inward.
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