and i call it frickmas cause THE COMPETITIONS TOMORROW OMG OMG OMG OMG
OK SO here’s what on the agenda:

1. making sure the set screws dont destroy themselves on the field
2. getting the climb attached and making sure it maintains enough torque to actually pull the robot
3. figuring out some sort of system for intake
4. lining up all the suspension to prevent it from getting stuck, damaging the metal, or crapping out on the washboard section
5. making sure the pi mount, buck converter, code, suspension actuation, and every other subsystem actually work
6. testing!!! lots of testing of all of everything!!!!!!!
   for the first one, my partner had already spent so long on the set screws so some testing was all it took to see that they were fine, and that was enough cause they were not really going to get any better.
   my other partner finally got around to actually finishing up the climb and attaching it to the front of the bot. good news: it hooks! bad news: it doesn’t even remotely pull back! luckily, the rules still gove points for hook but no lift, so we decided to leave it there since his effort could be best spent elsewhere with this little time left
   the intake system was determined to be pretty much a dud by the end of the day, cause of course cardboard couldn’t really carry anything, and we didn’t have time to design something better since the last system fully failed
   lining up the suspension was pretty easy, just took a bit of manual adjustment and a good amount of testing on the field
   each of these were kind of annoying to address but i have a feeling itll be rather important at the end of the day (which is basically how long until handling all the wiring and subsystems took us)
   lastly for the testing, we just drove like a bunch of times! honestly the runs went like okayish ig, we rarely made it past the washboard and of course NEVER made it over the hill ever since we did it first a couple weeks ago. otherwise though, the robot was stable the entire time and didnt have any weird glitches or hardware malfunctions (thank god we taped down the battery this time) so we were good(ish) to go!

below is basically what our final robot is gonna look like (minus the climb)