Things to Explore

[Al3+]

Hello, users of ChiefDelphi. I'd like to seek some advice.

In recent years, team 840 has been facing difficulties with faculty, fundraising, and member turnover that have been gradually chipping away at our capabilities as a team. This has led us to decide to skip competing in FRC this year, feeling that we're simply not ready at this point. While this makes me very sad (especially being a senior this year), this is also an opportunity for our team for focus training and look into technical aspects of robotics that we haven't had a chance to touch recently.

I've been compiling a list of possible things for us to explore (reproduced below), and I was wondering if any of you could offer additions to this list. This does not mean we're definitely going to attempt every single item, but just to give us things to consider and a sense of direction for the coming semester.

Thank you.

Things to Explore:
- six wheel drive
- alternative drive (mecanum, swerve)
- conveyors and ball magnets
- pneumatics implementations
- linear gears/rack and pinion system
- arms/manipulators
- alternative steering (971-style)
- line tracking
- target tracking (camera)