RobotX 2026
Weekly Sprint 7 Meeting
April 20, 2026
We are so back (in Notion)

Meeting Overview
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Primary Semester Goal
Vehicle readiness video prior to finals
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Agenda
- Test Cancelled
- Test Planning 101
- Status Update
- Sprint Progress
Upcoming Events
- Work Sessions M-Th 6-8PM
- 4/23 Dry Test
- 4/25 Next Lake Test
Things to Know
Test Cancelled
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Software wasn’t dry tested
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Move test plan to 4/25 instead (location TBD)
- Let’s not overwhelm with too many people
- No Thomas ;( no car
- Cars: Sean, Shrey, Aaron
- Things: 2 boats, 4 tall buoys OR 4 shorter buoys
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Dry test 4/18 software code at a prior time than Thursday (4/25 Dry Test)→ Tuesday?
- MetaGate position uncertainty
- TF errors (if any)
- Readiness behavior tree response
Test Planning
- Rewrite “detailed” dry test plan and lake test plan for 4/25 Lake Test
- Step-by-step such that it is reproducible by anyone
- Blueboat at Sweetwater
- Shakedown BB05 if it works, do gates
- Bring BB04 for software backup
- Drone at Waterworks or bust
- Bring BB01 for GPS
- Bring Anker
Status Update
Bills and Purchases
- Do we need to buy anything last minute?
- Mouse stuff for orange boat
- Missing parts
- Cooling fan? What was the situation on this?
- Go to the Spring26 spreadsheet, find the thing, and change the status to needs purchase
BlueBoat 05
- Electronics
- PCBs (besides the logic shifters) are assembled
- We are going to reuse the estop harness from RB26
- Estop harness was added on Sunday and is now working
- Need to debug light tower - Nick
- Most likely we are just going to reuse the RB26 light tower relay board
- Firmware likely needs to be re-flashed → Airanna
- Need to add 5V regulator power powering the Pi → Works (Able to independently power the pi)
- We should just need to unplug an XT60(?), to replace the source power of the Pi from the ESC to a separate regulator
- Someone needs to tune/check the potentiometer of the buck converter → Marcus and Brian
- Power switch plugs directly to pi
- Need to figure out RC settings in order to directly control the RC → Shrey and Marcus
- Nick has documentation → someone not Nick → Shrey and Marcus
- Parts fabrication
- Print sensor covers
- Soldering needs to happen:
- What stuff do we need to solder to replicate the research boats? → Thalia/Nick
- Nothing left