Entry 18

The programming team downloads and installs IntelliJ today.

• We need a new way to collaborate in real time because Floobits is having errors and "Code With Me" is offered with InteliJ.

The robot design team works on attaching various parts to the robot design, including two U channels, that will eventually hold the wheel assemblies.

The specialty parts team continues to work on extruding the bumper for the robot design team.

The programming team installs and familiarizes ourselves with IntelliJ and the "Code With Me" feature.

The robot design team completes their take of attaching parts to the robot design on OnShape, and we plan on working on assembling the various wheel sets that will soon be needed for the robot.

The specialty parts team focuses on finding the proper method needed to extrude parts, and was able to do so. We plan on preparing the part as soon as possible so that the robot design team can utilize it at the first competition.

The robot design team's goals for today are:

• To work on attaching various parts to the robot design, including two U channels, that will eventually hold the wheel assemblies

• To gather the parts needed for the smaller disc wheel assembly

The goal of the specialty parts team for this meeting is to

• learn the proper methods in order to extrude the bumper for the robot design team

Robot Design Team:

• Two short u-channels are attached. These will hold the large wheel assemblies. The first large wheel assembly is nearly done. Most of the parts for the smaller disc wheel assembly are gathered.

• The GoBilda website is down for about half the meeting thus it was difficult to determine the different parts available and which ones would be best to use. OnShape doesn’t provide a good view of the parts or their measurements unless you pull them out and do so, so is a large time investment we can’t afford.

• Tomorrow we will finish the intake mechanism. We will assemble the small and large wheel sets. We also need to workout a way to drive the wheels.

Specialty Parts Team:

• We find out how to properly extrude the parts using vertices. we have been doing it wrong the whole time, so we will have to continue using the proper method. We do not believe that we will have further problems, but efficiency is key to finishing.

• With the research done today, we will use the methods shown to get the bumper available as a part. We will continue on the bumper to have it ready by Wednesday for the competition on Saturday.

The goal for today is to download and install IntelliJ, which is something similar to Android Studio, which could help us write our programs in a more efficient manner.

• With Floobits having errors, we need another way to have all five team members collaborating in real time. IntelliJ offers “Code With Me.”

• IntelliJ uses the same languages and has almost the same layout as Android Studio so we won’t have to spend time relearning what we already know.

We are all able to install IntelliJ without much trouble.

Sometimes, there are problems with a group member’s computer, which would delay the process a little bit, but everyone was very patient and we all help each other.

We would like to use the new tool to create programs for the challenge of this year’s competition.

We would like to take as much advantage as we can of this new tool that allows us to collaborate with each other in a better way.