Wanted to show off Omegabytes, FRC Team 5727, Rapid React 2022 robot that the team has built. A couple of things to note: this was our first time using swerve drive and vision. We started researching swerve in November of last year (2021) and we set out to have a driving chassis before kick-off but with shipping problems, we did not get the swerve modules till the end of December. Side note, the swerve modules are the L2 MK4 Swerve Module. We got everything together and had it driving with field orientation by the middle of the first week of kick-off. We felt that we would be able to get drive practice with the drive bot and still have time to build the practice bot and comp bot. Something that happened when we got done building the practice bot was not being able to see the CAN Bus. We completely redid the CAN line 5 or 6 times and also made sure we did not have a bad falcon as this year’s bot had 16 falcons total. One thing that we did to help solve this issue was to load code to the Robo Rio and we were able to see the CAN Bus through Phoenix software. We worked with WestRock again this year to laser cut and powder coat all our green parts on the bot from steel. Everything that is black on our bot was built in-house on our CNC router.
This years’ build season was amazing and challenging working with shipping delays and item shortages. We did a lot of things for the first time this year building 3 different bots, using swerve, and using vision for shooting. We can’t wait to see how the competition season goes and play with this year’s 2022 Robot OverBYTE
