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7 Degrees of Freedom
Owens Cross Roads, AL, USA
Rookie Year
2024
Members
7
Mentors
1
Type
Community Team
Meeting Hours/Week
6
Approx. Budget
3000 - 5000 USD
Workspace
Home Workspace (garage, basement, etc.)
Sponsorship Status
1 - 3 Sponsors
Drivetrain
Mecanum
Materials
Prefabricated Metal Parts, Polycarbonate, 3D-Printed Plastic
Product Sources
GoBILDA, REV Robotics, Axon
Odometry
GoBILDA Pinpoint
Sensors
Limelight 3A, Color
Systems
Wheel Roller Intake, Other
Programming Language
Java (OnBot or External IDE)
Development Environment
Android Studio
3rd-Party Tools
FTC Dashboard, Pedro Pathing
Vision
AprilTag Localization
What types of Outreach do you plan to do for this season? Which of those Outreach initiatives are you most proud of?
We are moving to an intiative based structure, so each student has atleast 1 outreach initiative they are working on that they feel passionate about, and some students are even working together on an initiative! For example one of the initiatives is a student is working on is doing robotics demonstrations in a library in Mobile, AL which is about 5 hours away from where our team is based.
What competitions will you be attending? Which of the ones that you listed are you looking forward to the most?
We are shooting for going to 2 qualifiers, November 1st and December 13th, then going to the Alabama State Championship on February 28th.
How will you be organizing your team at competitions?
We use GitHub Projects to keep on track of what everyone is working on or needs to be working on. When we get closer to compeitions we will collect data about what roles students want to do and work to make sure everyone gets a chance in every role atleast once before State.
How would you describe your design process? How many options/strategies do you compare? How do you visualize your designs before building?
We start by setting our goals for the robot, then we consider every way to score and every possible strategy before doing a cost-benefit analysis to determine the tasks with the best points/second ratio. We then make a priority list based on that, and then start prototyping based on that list.
Made with by Electric Mayhem Robotics and external contributors
Check out our code on GitHub
Contact Us: contact@ftcopenalliance.org
FIRST TECH CHALLENGE OPEN ALLIANCE is fiscally sponsored by The Hack Foundation (d.b.a. Hack Club), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 81-2908499).