Team update
Phase 2: Off-Season Training
Sprint 3, November 8— December 6
Note: this sprint was especially long because we had a week-long break in the middle of it for Thanksgiving and it was better to maintain momentum…
Sprint 4, December 6 — December 18
The overall goal of this sprint was to complete a full water test of Git Boat (Our new name for Damn Yankee) and start researching and…
Backdated: October 9, 2017
Welcome back to the Olin Aquatic Robotic Systems blog! We’re starting off the 2017–18 school year, and we’re also starting on a new project plan! Here are the details:
Phase 1: Damn Yankee Usability
Sprint 2, October 25 — November 8
The goal of this sprint was to finish all of Damn Yankee to get it ready for testing, and then to test it. We did not end up getting to test…
Mechanical Subteam is working on creating battery boxes to keep the boat’s electronics safe from splashing. Our batteries are a somewhat awkward size and shape, so in the hopes of finding a quick solution for use in testing, we ordered some plastic food…
Sprint 1, October 11–25
This sprint was the official start of our five-year project. We spent the first few weeks of the semester making sure we had an established…
February 3, 2017
We are rapidly working towards actually making hardware move with our code, and lots of pieces need to work together to make that happen. To keep track of all the pieces, we made a diagram to sort it all out. The details will probably…
January 3, 2017
As we build a software base for our robot, we regularly add robot behaviors which want to tell the robot where to go. However, with only one boat and multiple behaviors trying to direct it, we need something to resolve disagreements…
February 11, 2017
We like robots, but we don’t like out of control robots. To ensure we never have an…