FRC 2468 is excited to announce our FIRST in Focus Speaker series. Each week, we will be inviting experts from across FIRST to come and share with all. The idea is to have speakers share about a topic followed with Q&A by the attendees. We will utilizing Zoom Meetings for the presentations. All meetings will be recorded and posted for later viewing.
This week will be Andy Baker discussing FRC Design History and Impactful Designs.
The presentation is Thursday, April 9th at 7:00 PM CST. Please complete the form for invitation to the meeting. https://forms.gle/2FNqsZBct7aRuQzt6
If you have suggestions for questions to Andy, please post them here.
What off the shelf components (other than the KOP chassis) have had the biggest impact on FRC designs, and what kind of new product (which could be reasonably released in the next couple of years) could have a similar impact in the future?
The first time they sold it I bought 13 or 14 of them.
Still have some brand new ones sitting on our display shelf.
Those needed a final stage in order to run them at speeds optimal for game play.
I believe thats why they came out with the Super Shifters later.
I’m a little bit shaky with the differences between the gen 1 and the gen 2, although timeline wise the gen 2 makes more sense. Since 2018, we’ve used the guts between some custom plates. Still works, still cooks. We were supposed to figure out if shifting was still useful in the age of brushless power this time around, but looking at everything now, the andymarks might have yet another year left in them.
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