The FIRST Alumni and Mentors Network at Michigan (FAMNM, pronounced simply “FAM”) is thrilled to announce our participation in Ri3D for the 2025 season!
What to Expect From Us
Daily Livestreams
We plan to host recap livestreams at 7 PM ET on Twitch starting Saturday, January 4th, through Monday, January 6th. Additional streams may pop up, so be sure to follow and enable notifications!
Missed a Stream?
No problem! Highlights, subsystem breakdowns, and our official robot reveal will be posted on our YouTube channel!
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We’re here to connect with the community and answer your questions! We’ll be active on this thread, our Twitch chat, and YouTube comments.
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We can’t wait to see the amazing robots the FRC community creates this year!
To wrap up the day, we started assembling a Climber in a Box. This mechanism is being adapted as our primary scoring solution for the coral at L2 and L3.
We’re excited about the progress we’ve made so far and look forward to continuing tomorrow! Stay tuned for updates on our journey through Reefscape 2025!
Good morning everyone! We are here bright and early prototyping and finalizing our design.
We are currently working through the issue of an algae intake/outtake for processor scoring.
Cranberry Alarm found that a hex shaft with compliance wheels near the top of the algae was able to push it up and into the processor. With this in mind, we are trying to find a height that allows us to both push the algae up into the processor and pull it into our robot for travel.
We will post results from our testing jig shortly, which we hope will illuminate the ability of the algae to “slide” across the carpet (therefore meaning we won’t have to intake it fully and sacrifice space). Keep an eye out on our Youtube for a short and a thread post here!
We’ve done our testing and have some interesting things to report.
We were able to recreate Cranberry Alarm’s results with two green-compliant wheels.
This should allow us to position it such that the ball can be shoved up and into the processor with an outtake, or up and into the robot with an intake.
We have determined that the friction between non-rotating algae and the carpet is too great to slide the algae while driving, so we are instead considering a low voltage “captive” intake state so that the algae is pushed against the bumper and above the ground throughout travel.
Here is the link showing our replication of Cranberry Alarms results:
As always, if you have any questions or things you would like us to test, please reply below!
We are going live shortly to document our build process. We will have a more organized recap stream at 7, as promised, but please feel free to stop in before then to ask questions and watch our progress!
Above you can see our planned design for our robot.
On the left, you can see our intake/holding system for algae, based on our earlier prototyping.
On top, you can see our coral feeder, which consists of a larger pipe and an indexing wheel. This allows us to index our pieces, before raising the feeder to the correct height with a climber in a box, and then spinning the wheel to outtake onto the reef.
Climbing is currently up in the air for us, and something we plan on revisiting once the above two designs are complete.
We are currently live and are planning a recap stream at 7, tune in!
Here is the current state of the robot, the arm is mounted… at least for now.
I’m not sure if we’ve mentioned this, but it turns out the two-state climber in a box gives us enough height to go for L4, so we have transitioned this from a “could-have” to a “should-have” because it seems viable within our design.
The night will be spent hopefully mounting our end effector and intake for algae. Stay tuned to our live stream for updates and let us know if you have any questions or testing suggestions!
Here is the recap stream VOD for those that missed it:
