Overclocked (22059) - competition

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EiUAH2h7L3vZCfXmfekbK35sGuIZg5e-QF2VKTOBHcM/edit#

Robot Startup Guite 22059

Robot Startup Guide Plug in battery Make sure power switch is on Check connection between control hub and robot Open robot controller app on control hub Check robot battery; If 25% or lower, replace Select current program Init/run

https://www.instagram.com/overclockedftc/ https://www.firstinspires.org/team-event-search#type=teams&sort=name&keyword=Overclocked&programs=FLLJR,FLL,FTC,FRC&year=2022 we may have a new rival

Team and Event Search

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@Jeff Debra signed the consent and release, and we applied to the team. Do you have to accept it?

Max

@Jeff Debra signed the consent and release, and we applied to the team. Do you have to accept it?

Yes it came through and I accepted it. Thanks!

https://ftc-scoring.firstinspires.org/team/22059/play

3D things we used on our robot: FTC REV Control Hub and Expansion Hub Mount by eitaner https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5178239 FIRST Tech Challenge Power Switch Plate for REV Power Switch by texasdiaz https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3635818 FTC Tetrix Battery Holder by FTC10191 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2794818 REV Driver Hub Case by mjsecl https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4967430 2020, 2040, 2060 End Cap by F14Claude https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5023349 Linear Slide for Robotics (FRC / FTC / VEX) by ayershirleyfirst https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4655057

FTC REV Control Hub and Expansion Hub Mount by eitaner

This is a FTC REV Control Hub and Expansion Hub mount I remixed from TheEV. It holds the Control Hub and Expansion Hub on each side and has cutouts for the USB ports. There are holes properly spaced for GoBIlda holes. There are also holes to mount the hubs. I attached the STL file and the fusion file if you want to edit it.

FIRST Tech Challenge Power Switch Plate for REV Power Switch by tex...

When reading the FIRST Tech Challenge rules regarding a power switch, it seems so silly to require a power switch to be mounted AND a power switch sign identifying where the power switch is mounted - why not combine the two so that the power switch mounting plate can also identify the power switch!? Our first shot was just a simple yellow long p...

FTC Tetrix Battery Holder by FTC10191

This is a battery holder for the batteries that come with the Tetrix systems. There are two variations in the files. One has mounting tabs on the short ends that have the Tetrix "flower" mounting holes. The other does not have the mounting tabs. Underneath the flower pattern is indented in the bottom. So if you choose to mount it through the bot...

REV Driver Hub Case by mjsecl

This case houses and protects the REV Drive Hub utilized in the First Robotics FTC competition. An opening has been added to expose the speaker and tabs added to lock the device in place.

2020, 2040, 2060 End Cap by F14Claude

Another 2020, 2040, 2060 end cap with OpenScad file to allow modifications. 18/10/21 Scad file updated. 19/10/21 Scad file updated.

We won the think award… for the engineering portfolio that didn’t have the team number (edited)

Nice surprise win on this match. Great job today team!!!

1:30 PM

1:31 PM

Lots of competition photos

@everyone The Aquabots are in the Semifinals at https://www.twitch.tv/andoverrobotics

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GOOD NEWS!!!! We got an email with the following information. Great job!

Congratulations MA FTC Team 22059 Overclocked! You have advanced to the 2022-2023 MA FTC State Championship as the Think Award winner from the RoboStorm 8.1 Qualifying Event via our tiered lottery drawing today. The MA State Championship will be held on March 4th at Andover High School and we invite you to accept this invitation and participate.

Holy cats!

I know, RIGHT!

@everyone we got to state!

WHOOOOOO

6:43 PM

No way

6:43 PM

This is insane

OHH MY GOSH! I didnt realize that the drawing was today

Lucas

OHH MY GOSH! I didnt realize that the drawing was today

I didn’t know there was a drawing!

It is exciting!

Should we post on instagram?

8:17 PM

@everyone sorry for the ping but should we practice driving before state? (edited)

Max

@everyone sorry for the ping but should we practice driving before state? (edited)

Definitely

How soon are people able to meet?

I can’t this entire week

Until Monday?

But other people should probably practice if they can

Alex

How soon are people able to meet?

We get back the 25th

Alex

Until Monday?

Yes

Saturday or Sunday

I'm pretty sure that I am free 'til Wednesday the 29th in the morning and in the evening except Wednesdays and after the 29th I'm free in the afternoon except Wednesdays. (edited)

I really want to get the new telemetry working, and we should practice playing with powerstackers

@Zach you guys are getting back on tues, right?

Alex

I really want to get the new telemetry working, and we should practice playing with powerstackers

Why not we save that for next year

Alex

I really want to get the new telemetry working, and we should practice playing with powerstackers

We are going to keep the same code we used for regionals

Jeff

We are going to keep the same code we used for regionals

Is that required, or just a very good idea?

Isaiah

Is that required, or just a very good idea?

very good idea

(edited)

Wow, I figured it would be mandatory

The code should all just work

Yeah

8:57 PM

Let’s practice driving a lot with the team scoring element

For sure. Also practicing swooping through the alliance station

We arent going to have much timw to practice before states. We are available weds after 5:30, Thursday for most of the day and next Wednesday and Thursday after 5:30.

Alex

For sure. Also practicing swooping through the alliance station

Yeah, I don’t think any of us really realized the importance of that

Next year we should all assume that we are going to states

That is a bold but optimistic assumption. I like the way you think!

That way we don’t have this scramble

9:04 PM

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10a0E3V3k70FTq6_BEdlqu12NOrIWB2iuI5Vf3crX0Mc/edit

Things to do before regionals

Practice with the capstone Practice swooping Not getting stuck on cones Being quick Sand the sharp acrylic Pointy hand? Arm sensor? (almost certainly not)

What do you mean by pointy hand? @Alex (edited)

If you want to practice, let me know what days people want to come. Again someone will be here 2/22 after 5:30 and we can set up a time on 2/23 depending on what time people are available. Also available 3/1 and 3/2 sometime after school.

We can’t be there this week, but next week we can do any day

Sounds good. We will sure we get you some drive time

I can do the 22nd, the 1st, and the 2nd after 6:00, but my dad it working on the 23rd, so I can’t come them

Do you think we should plan teams ahead of time?

Yes

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Then we won’t be able to do what we think is best for the strategy, but it won’t be as stressful.

Isaiah

What do you mean by pointy hand? @Alex (edited)

@Alex

It is a redesign I will print. It should be a drop in replacement that adds precision to the hand. More self-centering. I'm designing it right now

Sounds great!

9:14 PM

Will it stop the fingers from getting stuck?

No, although I have an idea for that now

How?

9:16 PM

I will also try a slicer to put more infill in the tips

Alex, Thanks for letting me know your availability.

9:21 PM

Once I know when people are able to come I'll set up some specific times so people can practice

So far there are a lot of really good team, but no brainstormers. They must have qualified in VA. https://ftc-events.firstinspires.org/2022/USMACMP

USMACMP FTC Event Web : Event Information

Official event information and results for the Massachusetts State Championship

I can probably come the 1st and 2nd

I can come any day next week

Thanks. Once I hear from everyone else. We will set up times to practice

@everyone Make sure to give us your availability before the competition

I just got the team number on the engineering portfolio

Zach

I just got the team number on the engineering portfolio

With that, what can stop us?

Isaiah

With that, what can stop us?

The robot breaking for some reason

It isn't, right?

Zach

The robot breaking for some reason

That was a rhetorical question

Alex

It isn't, right?

It's not breaking right now

No, it isn't

Everyone should take a look at this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJxEXIbFvhSWpKBoGlj98ZHWZRtx_rIuxt3a5YWPYuO_TE6g/viewform?usp=sharing

Team Scouting

This looks to be the current schedule/team grouping for Sunday: https://ftc-events.firstinspires.org/2022/USMACMP/qualifications

USMACMP FTC Event Web : Qualification Matches

Official qualification match schedule for the Massachusetts State Championship

We're Teamed up with Pioneer robotics

2:10 PM

There’s team 1??

Yeah team unlimited

3:54 PM

i think that we're paired with them one match

Nice

Cool

3:55 PM

So they’re the very first

I have made a spreadsheet with Drive teams, coaches and human player ( if needed), If there is anything you would like to add to it just let me know before you do it.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bg79rCLf4kAu1lpNYyICRvNrxQfksgIJoL_Gq2zx_j0/edit?usp=sharing

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That reminds me. Here is the scouting sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vTwOcrZsOWa8OnRzu-g-9Pf1Zx72n_IUqr_CpMyvIcM/edit?usp=sharing and here is the form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJxEXIbFvhSWpKBoGlj98ZHWZRtx_rIuxt3a5YWPYuO_TE6g/viewform?usp=sf_link (edited)

Team Scouting (Responses)

Form Responses 1 Timestamp,Team Number,Team Name,Robot Type,Movement,Cone Manipulation,Scoring Ability,Robot Strength,Robot Weakness,Average Score,Autonomous Capabilities,Number of Cones 3/4/2023 9:27:22,22059,Overclocked,Static arm w/ hand,Mecanum,Can pick up stacked cones, Con pick up cones on...

Team Scouting

10:34 AM

And here is my plan for the robot configurations https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Sx_KhlEbLwxAMJ2ynpQtOcDcqmMHE5yCS1AGhokgy8/edit?usp=sharing

FTC Matches

Sheet1 Match,Team,Match Number,Change Time,Power Stacker?,ConesDuring Auto,Seen Issues,Good?,Config 1,Pioneer Robotics,9,Yes,Yes,Getting knocked out of alignment,Yeah,Flush 2,Ghost Robotics,16,2.5,Yes,Yes,Cone transfer?,Yes,Flush 3,Team Unlimited,22,1,Sorta,No,Meh. Won't steal the substation,Use...

Sue

I have made a spreadsheet with Drive teams, coaches and human player ( if needed), If there is anything you would like to add to it just let me know before you do it.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bg79rCLf4kAu1lpNYyICRvNrxQfksgIJoL_Gq2zx_j0/edit?usp=sharing

Should we prepare drive teams in case we qualify (I don't expect that we will but I didn't last time so just in case)

Yes, I am going to decide that today.

They have posted Game Manual Part 1 for this season. This manual has all the rules that are not specific to the actual field (those are part of Game Manual Part 2 which is released when the field is). A link to the changes from last year is https://firsttechchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/07/centerstage-game-manual-part-1-release.html. One interesting thing is "The 2023-2024 CENTERSTAGE℠ field will contain AprilTag targets". There is also more information on this in the link. (edited)

We should keep our AprilTag code then

It looks like they are adding apriltag detection code to the SDK, so we won’t need it

Jeff

They have posted Game Manual Part 1 for this season. This manual has all the rules that are not specific to the actual field (those are part of Game Manual Part 2 which is released when the field is). A link to the changes from last year is https://firsttechchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/07/centerstage-game-manual-part-1-release.html. One interesting thing is "The 2023-2024 CENTERSTAGE℠ field will contain AprilTag targets". There is also more information on this in the link. (edited)

So is this the code of conduct or the game rules?

Alex

It looks like they are adding apriltag detection code to the SDK, so we won’t need it

Ooh that’s awesome

7:24 AM

I was thinking about how all the autostackers for autonomous failed a lot of the time and I was thinking that if we had enough time this year and there was something like that we could use machine learning too see if our hand is properly aligned.

7:24 AM

Lots of ifs, but it’s a fun thing to think about.

Isaiah

I was thinking about how all the autostackers for autonomous failed a lot of the time and I was thinking that if we had enough time this year and there was something like that we could use machine learning too see if our hand is properly aligned.

If it worked, we would probably win some awards for that

Definitely

If you have not already it is worth reading the information they linked to in the post at https://ftc-docs.firstinspires.org/en/latest/apriltag/vision_portal/apriltag_intro/apriltag-intro.html. It gives a lot of ideas about how you could use the AprilTags for localization and other things. I may be wrong but it sounds like they are hinting at how they are planning on using AprilTags on the field this year. What do you think?

I think they’ll have April tags around the map mainly for positioning. It’s a good step up from last year with the images that no one used, and it makes sense, as their adding rotation detection too. It also won’t be on a curved surface.

They have release version 8.2 of the SDK with the AprilTags integration. There is more information in the release notes at https://github.com/FIRST-Tech-Challenge/FtcRobotController

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Jeff pinned a message to this channel. 10/16/2023 5:46 AM

We have new additions to the Clockenspiel family.

They have announced our competition dates. They are: Round One: December 17 (Sunday) - St. John's High School Round Two: January 28 (Sunday) - WNEU (edited)

We will talk about this tonight but everyone must register on the FIRST portal in order to attend the competition this Sunday. The link to instructions is at https://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/youth-registration-system

Youth Registration System Overview

Youth Team Member Registration can be completed through new Express Enrollment application (U.S. & Canada) or the FIRST® Dashboard (Global) and is for youth team members who have been invited to an existing team.

Control Award Instructions: https://www.firstinspires.org/sites/default/files/uploads/resource_library/ftc/control-award-instructions.pdf

7:27 PM

Control Award Submission Form: https://www.firstinspires.org/sites/default/files/uploads/resource_library/ftc/control-award-submission-form-traditional.pdf

If you are interested in the Control Award you must follow the instructions to fill out the form that we will turn in at registration table on Sunday. Please coordinate with each other...

@Lucas , @malone, @Zev , @Max Please take care of your regustrations as soon as poaaible. You will have a link in your email. This needs to be done in order for you to go to the competition. Instructions are also above. Thanks. (edited)

@Jeff I did the registration

5:20 PM

Do we have a schedule for the competition?

Jeff

@Lucas , @malone, @Zev , @Max Please take care of your regustrations as soon as poaaible. You will have a link in your email. This needs to be done in order for you to go to the competition. Instructions are also above. Thanks. (edited)

I should be registerd

I believe I am registered now

Lucas

I believe I am registered now

Glad you registered! Did you see my dm

Oh I just did now

3:33 PM

I don't think i do sorry

3:35 PM

We also got dm'ed on insta by a team from Texas, they have an FTC page and they asked if we could do a zoom

3:35 PM

3:41 PM

i think they are probably a scam upon rereading this seeing as they said "hello (team name)" so nvm i guess

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lWTva6c-_FxVMCdfIHKtqiidNyhiVLGlf8c5XvXQf0I/edit

Robot Activation Procedure 2023-24

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18FzvOvtkB3snjyWrpmI5ui3TKhMbsueQDfQ41uyQPI4/edit?usp=sharing

January 2024 Engineering Portfolio 2023 2024 MVP

@True Overclocker Do we have a new document that we are using for the engineering portfolio this time around, or are we just using the old one (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FSDkBRQ7-p9vTAnKgiKWrq2hhbTo_59RHhjr99nzbS4/edit#heading=h.4ak4dx6r0fzg, we'd need to fix the permisions), or perhaps this one: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YRgJzAwZdFcg3DhJN2wFWd_UxVhZFi2IV5QXonVqUvs/edit?

Engineering Portfolio 2023 2024

Engineering Portfolio 2023 2024 Final

@Lucas please delete your copy of the engineering portfolio, we have a new copy in the drive.

oh ok

5:53 PM

like the message?

No

5:54 PM

The document (edited)

should be done!

Thanks!

@True Overclocker I have made an outline gfor the engineering portfolio. I would love if people could look over it and leave comments if they thing the organization could be improved, or if something need more space. It is in the google drive, under engineering portfolio, but here's a link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hw9AMXu1W0u1UyrjeTypIQ6_eMHY9ZXRLPaWk8X_cOo/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gv-UM7d6sVmtaGciBJrbiJbMtqhsBhOgjQE8w8RGKNk/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YRgJzAwZdFcg3DhJN2wFWd_UxVhZFi2IV5QXonVqUvs/edit

(OLD COPY, 1) Engineering Portfolio 2023 2024