What Does Your Off Season Look Like?

[messer5740]

Do you use swerve drive COTs or do you design your own?

[SenorZ]

We're lucky to live in an area with a large number of FRC teams, some of them amazing teams.

Right now we're planning on summer projects:

• working on vision programming
• making a simple swerve module
• making a turret shooter?
• improve our totebot

Plan for the fall:

• Develop new totebot race https://youtu.be/ma-68cYoQ-o
• Coordinate with other teams on Fall Workshops and off-season events
• Fall training sessions for team

And then there is sponsors sponsors sponsors!

[messer5740]

Originally Posted by SenorZ

We're lucky to live in an area with a large number of FRC teams, some of them amazing teams.

Right now we're planning on summer projects:

• working on vision programming
• making a simple swerve module
• making a turret shooter?
• improve our totebot

Plan for the fall:

• Develop new totebot race https://youtu.be/ma-68cYoQ-o
• Coordinate with other teams on Fall Workshops and off-season events
• Fall training sessions for team

And then there is sponsors sponsors sponsors!

Is the totebot the thing that andymark sells?

[SenorZ]

Originally Posted by messer5740

Is the totebot the thing that andymark sells?

No. They sell a PG/mecanum thing. This is FRC legal parts built into a small robot, and crammed into a tote.

We did CIM to 2:1 bevel boxes driving rear wheels. Caused some brown-outs!
3309 did a tank drive using their custom gearbox, I think.

We were going for SPEED!

[GeeTwo]

The last couple of years we tried to do our own game and develop a pair of robots to play it. We had an average of about four students on each team, which wasn't really enough to create the experience we wanted, so this summer we have a similar number of sessions dedicated to beefing up our Stronghold robot to play in Red Stick Rumble.

We also have a bunch of demos and service projects planned.

[staplemonx]

Originally Posted by messer5740

Do you use swerve drive COTs or do you design your own?

We are going to make our own.

[MailmanDelivers]

We go to off-season events, run fundraising events, information nights, and continue practicing and designing to help improve our engineering skills.
Right now we are mainly focused on our upcoming Information Night that tells rising freshmen or people interested in the team what we do, and we also run activities such as lego towers, 3D Printing and other fun activities.

[John Weissman]

Our offseason is busy, we just did a mini match at the King of Prussia mall playing 25+ matches thanks to Team 708. We are at Midknight Mayhem, IRI, Duel on the Delaware , and Ramp Riot for offseason. We are now training new drivers and operators. We are also thinking of the 26 hours at West Virginia. Busy offseason!

[Toatekua]

Sleep and rest.

This year we are working on planning a summer program just to use and practice our skills, though I haven't heard anything on that in a while.