View source for FRC2023-2024: Crescendo

== Game Resources ==
* [[Media:Frc2023-2024GameManual.pdf|Game Manual]]
* [https://github.com/trc492/Frc2024Crescendo Code Repository]
* [[Media:Frc2023-2024ImpactAward.pdf|Impact Award Essay]]
* [[Media:Frc2023-2024_DCMPAwardsFlyers.pdf|Flyers]]

== Season Videos ==
=== Impact Award Video Submission ===
<youtube>yo399jWPOkc</youtube>

=== Pit Interview ===
<youtube>62sKZA0hP38&list=PLwES-SbpsnxwdIUbTTTtnTQixvvBjSe_w&index=40</youtube>

== Season Recap ==
=== What Went Well? ===
* Better team spirit 
** We had signs, cheers, stickers/buttons/pokemon cards
** Better social media presence 
* We had a strong summer (good training with lots of kids) 
* Our participation in 2 off-season competitions gave lots of members good drive practice 
* We were able to kick off quickly into prototyping phase 
* Good mechanism ideas 
** Implementation of amp thing went well 
** Our ability to do redesign is very good
* Our auto-assists were very organized 
* We had good cross sub-team communication 
* We finished a lot of our priorities list 
* Match strategy went well 
* Good setup for how we were going to play each match 
* Better alliances this year
* Pit scouting setup was effective and detailed 
* We had ASB window fundraising this year 
* We applied for Impact Award which we haven’t done in a long time 
* Handles for the robot were nice 
* Rounded corners were helpful before robot inspection
* Open alliance was used more this year 
=== What Did Not Go Well? ===
=== Mechanical ===
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! style="text-align:left;"| Problems
! style="text-align:left;"| Solutions
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| '''Battery issues:''' Our battery got unplugged twice when we got hit. || Protect the battery from strenuous movement against hard hit.
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| '''Wires are too taut:''' Wires or connectors may pull out or break when robot got hit hard.
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* Leave enough slack when wiring and strain relief the wire at the connectors.
* Secure connectors by screwing them down or hot gluing them.
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| '''Wiring maintainability:''' Connectors access may be blocked by fixtures. || Carefully plan the placement of the component and orientation so that the connectors are easily accessible.
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| '''Shooter Tilter is fragile:''' Shooter Tilter is often damaged when hit.
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* Design a mechanism such that it is protected by the perimeter and within the robot bumpers.
* It's okay for a mechanism to extend outside the perimeter but ''Turtle Mode'' should bring it back inside the protective perimeter.
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| '''Shooter Tilter maintainability:''' Tilter was designed such that it's not easy to maintain. If the pulley breaks or skipped a tooth, it is not easy to fix. || Components should be design with maintainability in mind.
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| '''Radio/Ethernet Switch is not accessible:''' Radio/Ethernet switch block are placed and wired such that it's not easy to fix their wiring. || If it is unavoidable that a component is placed in a hard to access location, it should be designed so that it can be "taken out" easily to fix the wiring and put back.
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