Greetings to everyone,
I am Kerem Karakaş whose the one of the team mentor of #9020 Galatasaray Robotics.
As most of you know, we had created a build blog for our Off-Season robot, and now we are announcing that we will continue this blog here as part of the ‘Open Alliance Team.’ Instead of transferring the previous updates here, you can access those updates from here. This is where we’ve reached with your suggestions and our own efforts in developing our robot. Stay tuned for further updates!
Team Information
Galatasaray Robotics is an FRC team affiliated with Galatasaray High School Robotics and Coding Club, registered as Team 9020. We made our debut in the 2022-2023 season.
Our team comprises bright and innovative students who excel in both standardized exams and the field of robotics. They are passionate about STEM and seek to gain valuable experience before entering their professional careers. Being part of a boarding school environment, our team members hail from various provinces across Turkey. We have a team of 30 students and are guided by 4 dedicated mentors.
Our GitHub Page will be available in following days. (We’re in off season process and our software team will be publishing MANTICORE’s code via Github)
And we’ve got another update too. We finally got our order from US. (which includes our MK4 modules and some other components) We really what to thank FREIGHTLEAD and our 128th term graduates for this shipping process. Also thanks to Mükemmel Sarımsakçı for finance of this order.
Hi CD, Today was one of important days for MANTICORE. Even Istanbul Off-Season is postponed, our team continues on robot works. We got some of parts from CNC and they look actually great and ready to get colored. We’re also waiting for chassis tubes and assembly of MK4 modules. Then we’ll give power to our drivetrain and other subsytems.
Hi CD, first of all we have started to build MANTICORE and we were started to test the robot. But this update isn’t for this development. We decided to share our robot MANTICORE’s cad files so here’s the link of OnShape robot reveal.
Hey guys super cool robot! I was taking a look at your CAD file and noticed a clearance issue with your arm NEOs and the plates for mounting the arm. They seem to be overlapping in CAD. Just wanted to see what was up, maybe you have it fixed already, but best of luck!
Hi CD, our team is working on Manticore that we planned to compete with in off-season. Normally our team were looking forward to attend the Istanbul Off-Season event but the organizer team has announced some updates about this event. Turkish Program Delivery Partner Fikret Yüksel Foundation decided to not supporting this event with game field because of security issues and organizer team has decided to build their own game field in kind a different place and way. So as 9020, we’ve decided to not attending this event because of our concern on quality and security of event.
For further seasons, we hope to see well planned and better quality off-season events in our Turkish community that face on economic issues. We would like to thank the event organizer 8166, who always strived to find solutions despite these difficult conditions and setbacks.
After completing our work and tests on Manticore, we will be here with our reveal video, thank you for your interest.
I know I amAndyMark super late to this thread, but I would recommend flipping the cylinder around so that when the intake is extended the cylinder is fully retracted. This way the cylinder is stronger when the intake is the most vulnerable.
We’re in a very special period right now! Crescendo has revealed and our job has officially started
Kick-off - #GSKICKOFF2024
We’ve organized a local kickoff event with support and permission of Fikret Yüksel Foundation @AlexBurchard. In our Kickoff event, we had a perfect time with 17 teams who participated to our Kickoff. We organized workshops in 5 subdomains, social events, game reveal broadcast and kit distribution.
We wish good luck to every team who will compete in 2024 Crescendo Season!
We’re back with first updates from our building process!
We’ve left behind more than two weeks from Kickoff. We passed this two weeks with finding ideas, some managements, providing our missing components for robot production and of course CAD things. Since our school is a boarding school, we will be away from our workshop for the next 2 weeks because of semester break and we’ll have to carry out many operations remotely.
In this thread, we want to publish some updates on our robot.
If we’ve to describe our subsystems shortly;
Bumper-over Intake mechanism
Static shooter (shooting with two sided wheels) in specific angle
2 stage telescopic climb mechanism
Swerve drivebase with L2 ratio MK4 modules (700x700 chassis)
With our shoot system, we’re planning to get a stable shooting experience during match. Even we can’t shoot too away from subwoofer, our angle permit us shooting a bit away from subwoofer. With moving ability of swerve drive and driver’s performance, we hope to get low cycle times.
Here is last situation from our CAD process. Probably some parts will get upgrades & changes soon.
I would recommend using chain for the last stage of the intake deployment instead of gears. When the intake hits something, all of the force will get transferred to the one or two gear teeth in contact and they’re likely to break. With chain and sprockets, there are tens of teeth in contact with the chain at any time so the load is spread among them and they’re less likely to shear.
Hello everyone!
After a long work and some discussions on details, we are here now with our final cad release. As we stated after kickoff, we considered about our missions on Crescendo and we’re looking forward to starting manufacturing of our robot.
Also we have an update about our events that we’re going to participate. We’ve added Marmara Regional to our destinations for 2024 season.
Simple 700x700 swerve drivebase. We use SDS Mk4 Modules with L2 ratio & NEOs.
(Some last details like swerve guards, electronic board will be added soon)
These were all from us. With our main mission on building simple & robust robots, we’re excited about Crescendo! We’re expecting to manufacture all of things until the end of next week and then we’ll be able to assemble.
Hi CD, today we’re here with our weekly progress for Crescendo!
ROBOT UPDATES
We’ve done our chassis and we’re waiting for aluminium parts which will be made. We’ve send our aluminium sheets and we’re going to get the parts tomorrow. We’re also waiting polycarbonate parts from shipping and we’ll be here with updates from assembly progress.
While waiting parts from manufacturing, we’ve started to build our robot cart that we’re going to use in events. We have a simple design with places for drive station, batteries, bumpers and some other things.
We’re also waiting for chassis tubes and assembly of MK4 modules. Then we’ll give power to our drivetrain and other subsytems.
