{"id":4729,"date":"2026-01-30T17:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/team2869.org\/?p=4729"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:00:29","slug":"elementor-4729","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/team2869.org\/?p=4729","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 &#8211; The Protoyping"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4729\" class=\"elementor elementor-4729\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0d1eaf2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0d1eaf2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-93e723f\" data-id=\"93e723f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10df1ce elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"10df1ce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"164\"><strong data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"164\">Mechanical Team:<\/strong><\/p><p data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"829\">The Mechanical team continued prototyping and design work on both the intake and climber subsystems. Intake development had advanced with the system being electrically prepared for testing, including mounting a Lexan panel to prevent motor rotation and protect wiring. The climber team analyzed a single-box climber design for a Level 1 climb using the lowest possible gear ratio to allow for smooth operation.\u00a0<\/p><hr data-start=\"831\" data-end=\"834\" \/><p data-start=\"836\" data-end=\"852\"><strong data-start=\"836\" data-end=\"852\">Programming Team:<\/strong><\/p><p data-start=\"854\" data-end=\"1362\">The Programming team set up a new Java project in VS Code to begin creating simple test-bed code and developed an initial. They began integrating a Neo motor with a SparkMax controller, also outlining next steps for completing dependency installation and continued exploring button bindings to commands that control motors for training and testing purposes.<\/p><hr data-start=\"1364\" data-end=\"1367\" \/><p data-start=\"1369\" data-end=\"1384\"><strong data-start=\"1369\" data-end=\"1384\">Electrical Team:<\/strong><\/p><p data-start=\"1386\" data-end=\"1712\">The Electrical team advanced with intake prototyping by completing electrical preparation for testing. Wiring was secured, a Lexan panel was installed to protect connections and wires, and progress was made toward fully connecting the radio to the control panel.<\/p><hr data-start=\"1714\" data-end=\"1717\" \/><p data-start=\"1719\" data-end=\"1733\"><strong data-start=\"1719\" data-end=\"1733\">Carpentry Team:<\/strong><\/p><p data-start=\"1735\" data-end=\"2006\">The Carpentry team made continued progress on field construction, advancing the build of the blue alliance hub ramp and completing painting on the red alliance hub. These efforts helped ensure practice field elements were structurally complete and\u00a0 ready for use during practice times.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mechanical Team: The Mechanical team continued prototyping and design work on both the intake and climber subsystems. Intake development had advanced with the system being electrically prepared for testing, including mounting a Lexan panel to prevent motor rotation and protect wiring. The climber team analyzed a single-box climber design for a Level 1 climb using&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/team2869.org\/?p=4729\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[101],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/team2869.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/team2869.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/team2869.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/team2869.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/team2869.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4729"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/team2869.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4737,"href":"https:\/\/team2869.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/team2869.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/team2869.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/team2869.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}