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Arian and Josh call on 4/24/25 - Notes

This might serve as a TODO for 4/25/25's meeting.

Team-wide infos​

Shark tanking​

  • Explain to team!
  • Should help with developing ideas and getting people attached to them (we hope)

SAFAC: We need to make a way for people to submit part requests​

  • a channel in the server?
    • Discord bot?
  • or perhaps a Google Form
    • (josh: i like this, a discord bot is overcomplicated lol. plus a Google Form will leave you with a good spreadsheet that you can then "version freeze" (by duplicating it or something) and send to SAFAC!)

Robot dog (the broken one)​

  • Fix with a Wago?!
  • Possibly a great "intermediate" option for programmers to explore

STORM Report - Retroactive​

  • See: STORM Discord: #general (sorry if these discord links don't work...)
  • We could possibly put it in our docsite and then send it to them to host online?
  • This would help future teams! including ourselves!

Discuss build systems for purchasing!​

  • FTC perhaps - gobilda? rev?
  • Depending on plans, we may elect to not get one until later for STORM 2026..?
    • Eh. Lots of our bots can more likely than not be built out of FTC-sized components? so i think it's a worthy buy?
  • More control system components perhaps... idk
    • SPARKMini motor controller? Picos? Good ways of integrating batteries into the robot overall?
      • Also upgrading our systems to the 3S LiPos that we actually own lol (instead of josh's many 2S ones)

Build ideas:​

iPad-on-a-stick: 1 robot, 2 software versions​

  1. Telepresence robot
    • Could be a Discord bot that is controlled from home..?
  2. GPTars-style robot
    • Great for demos, especially with Student Engagement Fairs and such!
    • LLM Integration with motors and sensors (as opposed to just live audio conversation)

Stuff for Conner​

  1. a camera slider
    • this would be very Doable!! and might be a good beginnery thing to do!
    • however, it'd also probably be slightly uninteresting compared to other bots lol :)
    • He also mentioned a dolly slider
  2. a freaking cobot™️
    • (though i'm feeling that that would be best served by a well-developed commercial product for it to be useful and not just a hunk of metal)