FIRST Tech Challenge 2020-2021 Robot
Fully custom, mainly lasercut wood
Awards won
Undefeated robot performance and awards
1st place robot performance - Chesapeake Championship
Inspire award - Chesapeake Championship
My Contributions
Team Captain and Robot Integration lead
40% of hardware
30% of software
MTI Robot Flyer updated.pdf
I led the fabrication of this robot using laser-cutting, 3D printing, manual machining, and painting. The photo above shows almost all of the hundreds of custom-fabricated parts created for this robot. I had to order parts from over 10 different vendors in addition to all of the custom fabrication to create this robot.
We created numerous prototyping setups in order to figure out the necessary spacing and geometry needed for the desired performance of our intake and shooter - given the complexity of the bot rebuilding would be a major challenge if we needed to do it.
We used over 80 ball bearings on this robot for all of the moving parts - numerous belts, gears, and linkages in order to implement the mechanisms we wanted to. A few main design constraints we built our robot around required implementing many complicated mechanisms:
Whole shooter rotates vertically to aim from anywhere on the field (we found through testing that this was the most consistent method of aiming)
2 Intakes, with counter-rotating rollers to lift rings off the ground
Grab the wobble goal from the base, requiring a large arm that extends out of the robot
