Project Ideas and External Resources

• Brainstorming Landing Page
• Cool links and articles

Brainstorming Landing Page

An initial list of projects will be organized more into topics later!

Projects

• Photon Vision
  • Medium
  • Using a raspberry pi or a orange pi try loading photon vision. Allows for higher resolution cameras and higher performance for less. Possibly look into getting a global shutter camera similar to mechanical advantage
    •  2MP Arducam OV2311 has 1200x1600 greyscale 
    • photon vision should soon support ArUro if not possibly look into northstar 
• Localization and filtering
  • hard
  • Log tags positions and experiment with the pose estimator class to integrate wheel odometry with vision.
    • log replays will be critical to testing new strategies for this. This also goes hand in hand with the photon vision
• improved LEDS
  • easy 
  • see this comment for mechanical advantages LED options
  • implement additional LED states think about also splitting up segments to represent different data
  • blue flash for end game was one of my favorites
• Swerve Tuning
  • take another deep dive now that many other teams have swerve systems in how performant our swerve is
  • how much error do the pods usually have in operation
  • practice with the loggedtunablenumber
  •  Swervepod zeroing procedure for setting absolute offsets is also critical
• Mechanism2d Simulation
  • look into first driving a 3d model of the 2023 robot from a Mechanism2d described in Advantagescope documentation
• Override switches for driver station
  • easy 
  • integrate a series of override switches that can be used to switch off autonomations or trigger fallback options for drivers to gain manual control
• on the fly trajectory generation
  • look into either using path planner or a custom "trajectory" generator to create path planning that can be dynamically generated at runtime
  • think auto scoring and autoalignment for game piece pickup
• CAN connector investigation
  • probably should move away from the current connectors since they have a highish failure rate with our current methods. Look into what other teams use and what tools we might need to invest in to make sure we have high quality crimps
• Mini-offseason low bot
  • many teams have created micro bots that are only low game piece shuttlers. This could be a cost effective way to do another system integration before build season

Business and Admin Project Ideas:

• evaluate and choose cloud storage service for team photos and videos
  • gather and upload existing photo and video archive from various team devices and storage locations
  • do a call out for alumni and parent gathering of team photos and videos
• Off-season facilitated discussion on team Mission, Vision, and Goals.
  • Refocus on the Why and just make sure what's previously been documented still holds. 
  • I'd start with SAB perhaps over the summer and then relaunch in the fall with the entire team.

Cool links and articles

1678 strategic design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-wOaF65cTU&t=4s&ab_channel=CitrusCircuits

• some of the gold standard of how we want to build robots!

Effective First Strategies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9B0Khob0Xk&t=25s&ab_channel=FirstUpdatesNow

• Karthik is the best there is and this is an updated talk from the famous 2014 one

Advantage kit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmNJjKJG8mw&t=573s&ab_channel=LittletonRobotics

• A good introduction into why we log and the system we use

Command based paradigms: https://www.chiefdelphi.com/t/commandbase-subsystembase-depreciation/438975

• control motors either in the periodic as a state machine OR only command motors inside commands which are mutex locked to prevent multiple assignment of the same subsytem
• For the most part I am a fan of command mutex locking but sometimes it makes more sense to do a state machine