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ELECTRICAL
Our electrical team focuses on wiring the components on our robot to give it the ability to move independently or with the use of game controllers.
We take pride in adding to the hard work the build team accomplished, and making our robot functional by wiring the motors and pistons to components, then sending it off to the programming team.
Team Lead Perspective-
Audrey Camilleri
In the simplest terms, the electrical team specializes in color-matching. Green goes to green, yellow goes to yellow, red goes to red, and so on and so forth. We do this again and again, all around the robot the build team puts together, until it drives. Of course, there’s more to our job than that, but that’s the basic idea.
When new members join electrical, the first things I teach them are what each of the things we need to connect wires to are. A few of these components are the CAN bus, the PDH (Power Distribution Hub), and the roboRio. The electrical team’s job is to attach and wire these, alongside some other components, onto the robot (together with drive and auxiliary motors) in order to get the robot ready for programming.