Nationals

Roles and Responsibilities:

• John: Schematic design, wiring, compass
• Elvis: CAD, hardware construction
• Leon: Component digitisation, hardware construction, strategy
• Ben: Hardware construction, component digitisation
• Angus: PCB design, serial communication, strategy
• Kush: OpenCV

Timeline and Plan:

• Work out new plate designs (Weeks 1-2) (13/08 - 26/08)
• Work out new components, order and create schematic and PCB (Weeks 1-4) (13/08 - 01/09)
• Begin testing of tactics (hardware + software) (Weeks 2-5) (20/08 - 10/09)
• Construct robots, test, and finalise (Weeks 4-7) (03/09 - 30/09)
• Final optimisation (Weeks 7-8) (24/09 - 07/10)
• 2018 Australian Open National Competition: Sat 06/10 - Sun 07/10

Competition Times

Saturday 06/10

• 11:10 Table 12 vs Legolas (Camden Haven High School) - DRAW (0-0)
• 12:10 Table 11 vs InfraReady (Private entry) - LOSS (0-10)
• 2:10 Table 12 vs Undecided (Camden Haven High School) - DRAW (0-0)
• 3:50 Table 12 vs Ambusch (Camden Haven High School) - LOSS (0-?)

Sunday 07/10

• 10:00 Table 12 vs H010n0m1c (Private entry) - LOSS (0-10)
• 11:00 Table 12 vs M108 (The Scots College) - LOSS (1-11)
• 11:40 Table 12 vs Team APEX (Brisbane Boys College) - LOSS (0-10)

Links

• VS Code: Live collaboration of code for Raspberry Pi and Arduino
• Upverter: Live collaboration of schematic and PCB designs

A note from our sponsors: Congratulations on being runner up in the state competition, and now entering the national robotics competition!

A second note from our sponsors: Thanks for participating, here's a participation reward lmao 💩