We are the HSE Robotigers (Team 13127). We're a novice team of 6 middle schoolers in Houston, Texas.
Our robot, nicknamed Freddy, currently looks like this. He was built with a Tetrix MAX kit.
This league meet had a lot of problems, the practice pit was messed up and when we practiced on the messed up pit we got our programs messed up as well. Our connection with the REV expansion hub and the phone came loose so the robot completely shut down. This happened to us twice and so we hot glued the connection to make it stable and not move. In the last game we did well we got the jewel, safe zone, three glyph's in the crypto box and got back on the safe zone. In this league meet lots of people had adopted our design of attaching a servo to a metal plate and now most teams can do the jewel. Now some of the advanced teams can even do the relic and actually place it right.
In the qualifier tournament we did very well and scored fourth, we lost the first round but won the other four. To do this well we were able to do the full autonomous which includes knocking of the jewel, parking in the safe zone, and placing a glyph in the crypto-box. After the autonomous we were able to get a row of glyph's inside the crypto box and sometimes climb on the safe zone. Nobody's robot could do the relic. Our highest score with an alliance was 154 points. For the glyph pick up we improved that by adding foam which would not drop the glyph and it would hold steady. One problem was that the arms would go out but then get stuck in the glyph pit and we would have a hard time getting glyph's into our arms and crypto box.
In this first tournament our robot had front wheel drive which meant that we had power from only two wheels, while the back wheels had no power. Our robot could do the jewel mission, where it was able to knock down the right color jewel. Most of the other teams couldn't do this mission. Our robot could also place one glyph in the cryptobox, earning us two points. After we played all of our matches we were placed fifth out of approximately fifteen high school teams.
For the jewel we used a constructed metal arm and attached the arm to a servo. This arm was programmed to spin a certain amount of degrees so the arm would collapse downwards and displace the jewel. We attached a color sensor to the end of the arm. It would see the color of the jewels and compare the colors to the one we wanted in the program and then knock down the right one.
