Your Motor, Measured

These are the parts a judge or teacher reads to see your thinking, so the page leaves them to you. Leave a box empty to get lined space for writing by hand. Start lines with "- " for a list. The notes under each box only count and point things out; they never change what you wrote.

The word counts can be measured against a target your team sets on My notebook. The reading level is Flesch-Kincaid grade level = 0.39 × (words ÷ sentences) + 11.8 × (syllables ÷ words) − 15.59. Syllables are counted by vowel groups, so the grade is an estimate of the school year the writing reads at. It says nothing about whether the writing is any good.

Fill in what applies. These print as a small table under the method.

Compare this calculation with a run you saved earlier on this tool (under “Saved runs”). The page shows what changed and by how much.

Pick two measured columns from the same table. The page plots them and draws the least-squares line, only across the range you measured.

Load a CSV your robot saved. Pick the time column and up to three columns to plot, and type their units. Only those columns go on the page; the file stays on this device.

Pick a column of recorded trials for each version, from this page or another saved page. The page shows both averages and a 95% range for the difference. The numbers are copied in when you pick them, so later changes to the other page don't change this one.

Up to 4. Paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V, drop pictures here, or pick them. Photos are shrunk before they’re kept, and an unsaved page keeps them in its draft. Use Mark up to draw arrows, labels, dimensions and numbered callouts on a photo. Mark one photo Before and one After to print them side by side.

Write this before you test: the question, what you expect with a number, and what result would make you drop the idea.

One row per step, in order, so someone could rebuild from this page.

Lengths in holes are also shown in inches between the end holes. Weights are only added up where you type them.

List the ways this could fail. Score how likely (1 to 5) and how bad (1 to 5); the page multiplies them and puts the biggest risks first.

What the CAD or the plan said, and what you measured on the robot. The tolerance is yours.

What changed since the last version, why, and which result it was meant to move.

What needs doing, who, and by when. Open tasks carry to the next meeting page until someone ticks them done.

The pages in this notebook that show the idea being tried, measured or changed. A judge reading the claim can turn straight to them.

Who worked on this and for how long.

Notes taken during a session. The time comes from the clock when the note was taken; every word is yours.

Type the starting size limit from the current game manual, and the robot's size as designed or measured, in inches. The site doesn't store the limit, because it changes with the game.

The breakage log is on My notebook. Copy it onto this page as a table, as it stands now; later entries don't change this page.

Paste a link to the model (Onshape, Fusion or anything else) and the name you use for this version. For Onshape, the page reads from the link whether it points at a saved version or a workspace that keeps changing. Nothing is fetched.

A teammate or coach can leave a note here. Comments stay beside the page, travel with it in exports and links, and don't print unless you tick them under Include.

Videos, other teams, manuals, people. The tool’s own sources are cited for you.

Press a ? to see what an option is for, or read them all on How the notebook tools work.