January 20th: Rainy Weather, Robotics Meeting

Today was alright.

It was rainy today, so I couldn't go to UPS tomorrow. Hopefully the forecast doesn't lie to me, it says it won't rain tomorrow.

In today's robotics meeting, the engineering team got to work making more decisions for our intake system. We're still waiting on all of the parts to come, so hopefully they come soon! Build time shouldn't be much of a concern, according to one of our engineering leads.

Anyways, the programming team continued programming the IMU. We read values off of it. When our mentor, Dr. Max, came and took a look at our code, he gave us some insight for our code about inaccuracies, mainly about forgetting about the change in time since the last tick. Acceleration was calculated by the second, but we were adding that around 50 times a second, so we need to scale it back by how long it has been since the last time acceleration was read. In other words, we needed to multiply by delta time so that the acceleration was time relevant. So, we focused on getting the delta time. We were finished by the end of the meeting but we weren't able to test our code. Other folks learned more C++ concepts and helped create a timeclock system using google sheets and forms.

We also took out some monitors for us to use for our driver station "laptop" and some old mac minis. We originally wanted to set up the mac minis for our public relations team to use for photoshop, but the mac minis were all the way from 2010, which is pretty old. However, I still want to find a way to use them. Perhaps we will use them for programming. If so, we need to reset the OS to remove the school restrictions and settings, and for a fresh install. Windows 10 should run, Otherwise, we might go with Ubuntu for more performance. The point remains that there is still life in these old computers.

I'm very busy tomorrow, so I made a bunch of reminders for myself to keep myself of schedule to finish my homework and duties. Hopefully I stay productive!

Thanks for reading,
Issac