At this extra-long robotics meeting, we spend most of the time tinkering with that 3D printer. With some clever use of Allen wrenches and screwdrivers, we disassembled the printing head and attempted to clean it. In doing so, we extracted a large chunk of failed extrusion stuck inside it. Several components require an acetone bath to become functional again, so we should have the printer online tomorrow!
The actual robot did receive some adjustments. Its wheel that fell off yesterday was reattached, as was the ball intake belt which fell apart. The divot-producing metal channel has been filed down so as to not damage the field.
I continued work on the autonomous, but the IR beacon's battery died and we didn't have a 9V battery laying around. We did eventually go down to the local hardware store and get one, but by then there was very little time left. I did some more testing of the routines we do have, and there is really no nice way to differentiate the center assembly positions from the current testing position.
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