Progress
Systems
Before setting to get the new systems under control, the crew started out by studying about electricity and penumatics basics, finshing up by
making an electrical board from the old FRC systems, the IFI board, using victors, spikes, and even a pneumatic board.
The boards were installed on one of last year's robots (we always build 2 robots), and was tested, proggramed, and proven qualifed.
Afterwards, the systems crew learned as much as they could about the new systems. They read PDF's and searched for information on the net.
When our team got the Beta Systems before the kickoff, so we could check how it works and how to install it and than pass what we learnt to FIRST and afterwards help the other teams.
After the kickoff the crew assembled and built a systems board with the new systems on last year's robot in order to give the programming team a chance to program a whole robot before the actual programming of the new robot.
At the start of the first week the crew wired the systems and finished retrofitting last year's robot to the new systems. After finishing the systems board and checking that it works properly, the crew decided to help other teams with their systems board.
Steampunk hosted some teams and the systems crew explained them about the board and how it works.
The crew still can't build the board we will use in the FRC tournament because they must wait until the building crew finishes building the robot, so until then they help the building crew and plan the board we will use via 2-dimensions and 3-dimensions drawings.
The team inished planning the board, and installed it. Now the proggraming team can work on the robot, and the crew will be used as building-assist crew and provide technical support to the software team.