Senior Design Projects

[wajirock]

For your design project you could look into making motor driven linear movement more accessible to FRC teams. From what I know of, most forms of motor driven linear movement are out of the reach of most FRC teams. DART Linear actuators are really expensive, and belts and lead screws are somewhat difficult to work with. I've seen lots of hypothetical designs for alternate mechanisms, and I think it'd be really cool and beneficial if you could make an alternative motor driven linear actuator that is affordable for most FRC teams and can hold up against the rigor of an FRC match.

[QuatroDoesGood]

Some time ago there was a post about someone building an UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) that shoots airsoft pellets on the FRC Subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FRC/comment...lly_nooby_and/
It looks like a pretty cool idea that I personally would be all over doing

[OccamzRazor]

The NASA Lunabotics Competition (now martian) is one of the closest experiences to FRC I could find in a senior project. Lunar mining is not easy, and full autonomy is even harder. I competed with a team of eight individuals on some insanely tight constraints.

This was our monstrosity. It was the first rover from my university to be successful in competition at mining and depositing lunar simulants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaodHQC_MIo

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by OccamzRazor

The NASA Lunabotics Competition (now martian) is one of the closest experiences to FRC I could find in a senior project. Lunar mining is not easy, and full autonomy is even harder. I competed with a team of eight individuals on some insanely tight constraints.

This was our monstrosity. It was the first rover from my university to be successful in competition at mining and depositing lunar simulants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaodHQC_MIo

Very cool design! Bison Robotics is actually competing in the NASA Robotics Mining Competition already. I would agree that it's a great next-level competition from FRC. As per Bison Robotics' policy, I won't be able to do this competition as a senior design project, but it's a great suggestion!

[Billfred]

The one FIRST-specific senior design project that stuck out to me is the 254/968 2007 super-duper-lightweight 2-speed.

https://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/28070
https://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/28709
https://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/27018