PROJECT FLYING SOLO (1 Person FRC Robot) Development Thread

[soriiku17]

Heyo!

If you haven’t seen my first post on starting Project Flying Solo, you can check it out here. (2024 Crescendo FRC Solo Robot Project [PROJECT FLYING SOLO])

This is going to be the project thread for the entirety of the project, from the design and CAD, to building, coding, and testing.

UPDATE ONE (1.22.24)

Project Flying Solo (PFS) started looking at designs from past robots across the world to compile an ultimate idea list. Some specific robots which I noted were:

• 2024 KitBot
• 2023 Everybot
• FRC 176 (Aces High) 2023 Robot
• FRC 2601 (SteelHawks) 2023 Robot
• FRC 3937 (Breakaway) 2023 Robot
• FRC 694 (StuyPulse) 2022 Robot
• FRC 1787 (The Flying Circuits) 2022 Robot

After some thinking I decided to use the westcoast drive from the Kitbot, as it is an effective and budget friendly drive train for new teams. I am still comparing the intakes and shooters from multiple bots, mainly FRC 176 and FRC 3937. As for the climber, I liked the designs from FRC 694 and FRC 1787, but I wanted to somehow combine the climber with the shooter as to make a 2-in-1 mechanism.

[UltimateNoob]

Any updates on this? I’m intrigued by the possibility of such a project myself. Thanks

[Henbi3656]

if you wanna combine shooter and climber you could maybe put the hooks on the end of the shooter, it’d need some pretty strong motors to hoist the frame up but I feel like its doable. Itd be neat to see a long and thin style shooter (think 176, 1690 and 6328 from this year) with hooks on the end of it

[Cake]

Our robot has something similar

Climb Test

[Korny]

Our first climb concept does something similar: the carbon tube is just an extension that deploys during the endgame, and the robot is pulled up only with the shoulder motors.
If we had went through with it we just needed to add some sort of locking mechanism, but it worked pretty well.