Purpose: To record and reflect on each subteam's meet each week
Mechanical
- Week 1: Intro/Overview, Setup Onshape
- Week 2: Finish set up, Intro to CAD + fabrication
- Week 3: Creative Part, Naming Conventions, Bumper Plywood
- Week 4: Bumper L-bracket, Shooter Assembly, Shooter Rib
- Week 5: 3D Printing, Creating/Analyzing Detailed Drawings, Bumper Mounting
- Week 6: Frame Assembly, Gusset Plate, 1x1 10" + 12"
- Week 7: Frame Assembly (parts + assemble)
- Week 8: CAD parts: Bumpers pool noodle, Bumpers Assembly, Control Panel Wheel
- Week 9: CAD: Control Panel Wheel, Drawings, Roller Gusset Plates, Personal Design Project
- Week 10: CADing replica of telescope subassembly of last year's bot
- Week 11: Telescoping mechanism parts and assembly
Software
- Week 1: Setting up Robocode, Java Basics
- Week 2: Intro to Java, Creating First Robot, Looking at Sample Bot's Code
- Week 3: Basic Conditionals, Variables, and Mathematical Operators
- Week 4: Conditionals (in more-depth)
- Week 5: Conditional Operators + Loops
- Week 6: Methods, Battlefield Basics
- Week 7: Review Weeks 1-6, Classes
- Week 8: Classes Review, Accessors + Mutators, Overloaded Methods, Creating Enemy Bot Class, Advanced Scanning
- Week 9: Enemy Tracking (Firing, Gun Movement, Aiming, Avoiding Premature Shooting), Trig, Linear Targeting
- Week 10: Review Weeks 1-9, Introduce Robocode Project
- Week 11: Constructing Bot Strategies, Example, Outline; Figure 8
Electrical
- Week 1: Intro: Voltage, Current, Resistance
- Week 2: Electrical Safety
- Week 3: Basics of Electrical Components
- Week 4: Parallel and Series Circuits
- Week 5: Push-button
- Week 6: Sensors (Arduino + Photoresistor)
- Week 7: Sensors (Ultrasonic sensor + Potentiometer)
- Week 8: Sensors (PIR sensor)
- Week 9: Motors
- Week 10: Voltage Regulators, Motors, Review Metrics Sheet
- Week 11: Electrical parts on the Robot + Ultrasonic Sensor Project
Operations
- Week 0.1 (9/20): Grants, Donations for Campaigns, Virtual + Local Outreach
- Week 0.2 (10/04): Virtual (Airplane, Tinfoil Boat, Brush Bots) + Local Outreach, Newsletter
- Week 1 (10/11): Outreach, Grants Applications, Metrics
- Week 2 (10/18): Grants, Outreach (finish + zoom), Budget, Newsletter
- Week 3 (10/25): Website, Grant Dates + Criteria, Outreach, Newsletter, Emails
- Week 4 (11/01): Grants, Outreach, Newsletter, Email
- Week 5 (11/08): Grants, Outreach, Email, Website/Wiki
- Week 6 (11/15): Grants, Outreach (+ Paper Tower), Wiki (Materials, Links/Plan)
- Week 7: N/A
- Week 8 (12/06): Grants, Outreach (+ Gyroscope), Newsletter, Website, Outreach wiki, Diversity
- Week 9 (12/20): Grants, Outreach (merch), Newsletter, Website, Outreach wiki, Diversity
- Week 10 (01/03): Merchandise and Grants
- Week 11 (01/10): Grants, Outreach (+ Helicopter activity), Diversity, Merch, Website/Outreach wiki
- Week 12 (01/17): Grants, Outreach (+ Jellybean Structures), Diversity, Merch, Wiki
- Week 13: (01/24): Grants, Outreach (Marble Run/Tinker Cad), Diversity, Merch, Wiki?
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