Week 10 — Training Sign-Off, Shooting Autos & Pollen Removal

Everyone: complete all Java training lessons — with mentor sign-off

Every student works toward completing all of the lessons in the Impulse 3D Simulator. When you pass a lesson's quiz, show a mentor so they can sign it off. The signed sheet goes into our engineering portfolio, so it's real evidence of what our team learned.

New lesson: Actions in Autonomous — Make It Shoot

There's a new last lesson in the simulator. It explains how an OpMode really runs — the run loop, robot.update(), why sleep() freezes the robot, for loops and opModeIsActive() — and how to mark a shooting spot in Path Capture by pressing X.

Pass its quiz to unlock the code that makes a captured auto spin up the flywheel and shoot. Then add it to your auto and test it in the simulator.

Gurt: turret assembly

Keep assembling Gurt's turret. For reference, see our Week 7 turret notes (top flywheel, scoop hood, front spin).

Gurt: pollen removal

Design and build a way for Gurt to remove pollen from the flowers. Reference video (first shared in Week 8): → Passive Flower Intake | FTC BIOBUZZ (Hexadecimal Nibble Robotics, YouTube)

We can have more than one pollen extractor in the works at the same time — we'll use the one that works best.

Gabe: pollen removal

Same goal for Gabe. Here too, more than one solution can be in the works — we'll use the one that works best. The two robots don't need the same design, so compare ideas with the Gurt group and share what works.

Driver practice

Drivers get time on the robot. Know what every button does — see our Driver Controls page.